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Beast
beast at i6x.org
Wed Feb 16 11:37:14 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> /dev/nst0) for that; if you used a rewinding device node then the tape
> would be rewound after writing each file to the tape and the next file
> would overwrite the one just written.
Thanks Paul, I still have a question.
If I have new tape (or old but unused tape), should it need to be
formated first or just erase/overwrite is suficient? Is there any
standard file format for tape drive?
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