From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 20:11:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A022B1065676 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7198FC1D for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:11:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2JKBBcq069832; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n2JKBBhR069829; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Jaime In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:11:25 -0000 mt rewind should suffice. AFAIK DLT tapes doesn't need to be formatted On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote: > I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I > can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work. With all the other > tapes, I can't. > > Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried > "mt fsf 1" from this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html > > This didn't seem to work, though. > > Any help is appreciated, > Jaime > > -- > "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -- > Henry David Thoreau > > Tone of voice in email is misunderstood 50% of the time. > Source: http://www.howtoweb.com/cgi-bin/insider.pl?zone=214061 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >