tape utilities

[roland]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:30:42 +0200, Simon Andrews  
<simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:

> roland wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I did a new installation. But I did not find the tape command or the  
>> /etc/mnt command.
>
> Do you perhaps mean mt rather than mnt?  If so it's in the mt-st package.
>
> yum search mt-st
>
> mt-st.i386                               0.9b-3.fc7
>
> "The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management
> programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices)
> can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more.
>
> Install mt-st if you need a tool to  manage tape drives."
>
>
> You can install this package with:
>
> yum install mt-st
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Simon.
>
Thanks,
Sorry for the mnt. Stress

It works and I thank you
-- 
Roland