beware mt

From: <tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:56:55 +0000 (GMT)

Hi all,

I just has a minor catastrophe with the mt command, which
I thought I'd share with you. I inadvertently typed

   mt -f /dev/tape w

instead of

   mt -f /dev/tape rewind

to rewind my tape, and it promptly wrote a filemark at the
beginning of my tape.

As far as I can see from the man pages, w is not a documented
command, and everything that *is* documented is non-destructive,
so beware...

Cheers,
Terry.
Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 16:57:43 NZDT

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