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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have some problem when I do tar.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'># tar cvf /dev/st0 /temp</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> tar:
/dev/st0: Wrote only 0 to 10240 bytes</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> tar:
Error is not recoverable: exiting now.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Then I tried to untar by tar xvf /dev/st0. I saw just part
of the original file which was tar(based on the size).</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I thought it was the out of tape problem, so I did</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> #
tar cvfM /dev/st0 /temp</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>it just passed with out asking for more tape or anything. It
didn’t return any error message.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But then when I tried to untar, it return with : “Cannot
extract – fie is continue from another volume”.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Do you have any idea? did it really run out of tape? Does tar
with M option(multi-vol) should pause and ask for a new tape if it really ran
out of space?</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BTW, I’m running kernel 2.4.20-18.9. The tape can hold
20 G, but tar fail when it’s been at 16 G.</span></font></p>
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