Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:33:01 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Support <rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mt erase command question Message-ID: <20000203133300.B17882@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <00020310272102.00687@redmobile>; from "Support" on Thu Feb 3 10:19:13 GMT 2000 References: <00020310272102.00687@redmobile>
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In the last episode (Feb 03), Support said: > I think that mt erase only erases the first fileSys on the tape. So > my question is if I have 3 fileSys on the tape how do I erase all at > once? The standard "mt erase" is a "long" erase, which should zero out the entire tape. > Thanks! > > FYI: The reason I have to do this is the tape gets block size > confused sometimes (maybe once per month) and this is the only way I > have found to fix the tape problem:( It happens at random on > different boxes and tapes. I use tar for backups. FreeBSD 3.4 Any > thoughts? I've never had any problems with blocksizes on my tape drives. When you say "confused", what exactly do you mean? > Richard Nelson No relation. :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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