On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Raja Subramanian
<rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did not try mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 though. ?Seems like a complicated
process if I have to repeat "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1" for 500+ K files
that are typically found in animation/sfx archives.
Ah, now I understand the back ground.
A few months ago, I had to help someone extracting zillions of dpx files
from an LTO3 tape created on an IRIX box. ?I used an external HP SCSI
tape drive on a CentOS box and extracted everything using this command:
? ?tar -b 1024 -xMvf /dev/nst0
Took a lot of head-scratching to find that the -M flag did the trick.
However, I can't remember if I got the Block of NULs error which you
mention. ?YMMV.