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Hello Alecks folk!

It depends, what /dev/tapedriver is linked to. If it is /dev/st0 then the
tape is rewound after each operation, i.e. rewrutten. If it is /dev/nst0
then the tape remains at the point where last operation finished. 

HTH, -K.

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alex Daniloff wrote:

> Hello Linux folkz,
> I have a stupid tar question.
> When I do:
> tar cvf /dev/tapedriver /file1 /file2  (NOT 'tar cuvf' !)
> Will be previously stored files on the tape overwritten or the new
> files will be added to the end of previous archive on the tape?
> How I can blank the tape with the tar command?
> Thanks in advance.
> Alex 
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