Re: view content on tape

• To: Nina Pham <nina@xxxxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: view content on tape
• From: Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:28:29 -0500
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On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:06 -0800, Nina Pham wrote:
> I can see the tape is loaded by doing mt –f /dev/st0 status. How do I
> view the content on the tape?

Nina,

Depends on the content of the tape.  If it's a tar archive

# tar tf /dev/st0

For cpio, IIRC (dusting cobwebs from remote corner of core memory)

# cpio -itF /dev/st0

Phil

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