How to make dump not rewind the tape?

David White davew at viper.gvg.tek.com
Thu Apr 25 08:27:29 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr24.192745.19638 at leland.Stanford.EDU>,
kocks at jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
|>I have found that the dump command always rewinds the tape when it is
|>done.  Is there a way of having dump not rewind when it finishes?

Use the norewind tape device /dev/nrmt0h.  This will allow you to get
multiple dumps on one tape.

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