Re: [aclug-L] How to mount a tape drive?

["Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

no :)

On 2 Sep 1999, John Goerzen wrote:

> Might I just interject here that a command line of -cvSpf would
> prbably be more appropriate when backing things up.
> 
> -- John
> 
> "Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > It was my understanding you don't mount a tape drive. you just tar to it
> > ie
> > 
> > tar -cvf /dev/st0 /
> > should back up the whole system
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Kong Wo wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >     I have a SCSI tape drive which is detected on /dev/st0. What I like
> > > to do is try to mount the tape drive to /root/tape directory.
> > > I tried to mount it so many times using #mount -t ext2 /dev/st0
> > > /root/tape, however; is was unsucessfully. I like to know what is the
> > > magic string which allow me to mount the tape drive since I like to back
> > > up my whole system. Thank for any helps. Currently, I am using RedHat
> > > 6.0.
> > > 
> > > Kong Wo
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Clint Brubakken
> > Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> > Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group 
> > Independent Web Programming Contracting
> > Wichita, KS
> > cabrubak@xxxxxxx
> > ---
> > "If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an 
> > abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently."
> > 
> >   -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and 
> > Associates)
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
> Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> The 1,028,804th digit of pi is 6.
> 

Clint Brubakken
Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group 
Independent Web Programming Contracting
Wichita, KS
cabrubak@xxxxxxx
---
"If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an 
abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently."

  -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)