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Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug


From: bocek . pavel
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:51:36 +0100 (CET)

I am a bit lost with the initialization, I found nothing about this topic, it 
seems nobody does it anymore. Can you give me a little hint how to do it?

I found only stinit, but it's for initializing the tape drive, not tape itself. 
Not mentioning it does not have anything for my drive (HP C1537A) in stinit.def 
and I do not have any idea where to get it. I don't even think I need it, do I?

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Předmět: Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug
> Datum: 30.12.2010 22:24:27
> ----------------------------------------
> Well, I have to admit, I'm at a loss as to why you're
> experiencing the bug.  Perhaps if you run 'tar' under
> GDB you can see why it thinks the tar file is ustar format
> rather than GNU format.  I expect that it's some unanticipated
> confusion between -r (which needs to guess the tar format from
> the existing tape) and -M (which allows for multiple tapes,
> some of which may be of different formats!).
>
> One thing that strikes me is this one:
>
> sudo tar -rMf /dev/st0 /path/G* (tape 7, 8)
>
> Was tape 8 initialized before this tar -rM command was run
> the first time?  It could be that you need to initialize
> the trailing tapes as well.
>
>
>



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