[2348] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: how to force tapes to expire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Apr 22 19:17:58 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:14:39 EDT."
<199604222314.TAA23142@tertius.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:17:41 EDT
> You can use the labeltape command to force labeling of a tape.
> It will notice that the tape is expired and will ask you in the BUTC
> window if you really want to relabel it, to which you say yes. Then,
> you can write anything to the tape.
To be blunt, these directions are not sufficient. I need a specific
invocation for label tape, and it should be added to the
HOWTO-BACKUP-3.4A instruction file.
Jonathon
