Good Day All: I have installed a tape drive to perform backups. When I go into /proc/ide, I find the tape drive labeled as hdb. So I see the system is seeing the tape drive. Now my question is, what steps do i need to take to run the following command: mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb Now when I run the command I get the message: mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table. And when I run: fdisk /dev/hdb I get the message: Unable to read /dev/hdb So how can I get this to work? I thought the process would be just like anding another hard drive! Also how do I configure the tape drive to be mounted everytime the system boots. I am assuming I have to modify /etc/fstab with something like /dev/hdb /mnt/tape ext2 defaults 1 1 [This is after I create a mount point by cd /mnt, mkdir tape] Is this correct? THT bob
Robert Barish wrote:
Good Day All: I have installed a tape drive to perform backups. When I go into /proc/ide, I find the tape drive labeled as hdb. So I see the system is seeing the tape drive.
I'm not sure why your expecting hdb to be a tape drive. Ide tape drives are usually /dev/ht0 and /dev/ht1. Are you sure you don't have a hard drive at hdb?
Now my question is, what steps do i need to take to run the following command: mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb Now when I run the command I get the message:
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.
And when I run: fdisk /dev/hdb I get the message: Unable to read /dev/hdb So how can I get this to work? I thought the process would be just like anding another hard drive!
Also how do I configure the tape drive to be mounted everytime the system boots. I am assuming I have to modify /etc/fstab with something like
/dev/hdb /mnt/tape ext2 defaults 1 1 [This is after I create a mount point by cd /mnt, mkdir tape]
Again I don't understand why you expect to be able to mount a tape drive. I've used many different types and have never had to or even tried to mount one. I don't think your gonna have any luck with this. Your tape drive should be /dev/ht0. You should be able to access it with programs such as mt, tar, dump, etc.... For instance try to do "mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind" or "tar -zcvf /dev/ht0 /somedir" Regards Mark
Is this correct?
-- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
In general, you don't use a tape drive like a hard disk (creating a file system and mounting.) You should be able to use tar or dump and write directly to the tape device (prolly ht1) If you have the "mt" tape tools installed, you can try and do a status on the devices and see which one responds. Do a "man mt" to get more info. Once you've properly identified the device, you can try a "tar cf /dev/<tape device> /some/directory/or/file. - Herman Robert Barish wrote:
Good Day All: I have installed a tape drive to perform backups. When I go into /proc/ide, I find the tape drive labeled as hdb. So I see the system is seeing the tape drive.
Now my question is, what steps do i need to take to run the following command: mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb Now when I run the command I get the message:
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.
And when I run: fdisk /dev/hdb I get the message: Unable to read /dev/hdb So how can I get this to work? I thought the process would be just like anding another hard drive!
Also how do I configure the tape drive to be mounted everytime the system boots. I am assuming I have to modify /etc/fstab with something like
/dev/hdb /mnt/tape ext2 defaults 1 1 [This is after I create a mount point by cd /mnt, mkdir tape]
Is this correct?
THT bob
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