Formatting a tape?

[Wojciech Puchar]

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
>
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