view content on tape

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Nov 20 13:07:01 UTC 2004


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?
> 

That depends on how the tape was created.

If it was done by tar, then a simple tar command will tell you the
content as well
    tar -tvf /dev/st0 

use man tar for all the available options.






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