[Sussex] Can't mount tape drive

[John Crowhurst]

On Mon, August 28, 2006 21:34, Bob Williams (SLUG) wrote:
> I've recently added an HP DDS-2 tape drive to my system, but I can't
> mount it. I know it exists as /dev/st0. Should I add an entry to fstab,
> and if so, what should I put (e.g. what file system?)?

As Steve said, but if you symlink /dev/st0 to /dev/tape, you won't need
the -f switch on tar.

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John