Magnetic Tape

mt

Controls magnetic tape drives.

Use

mt [-f </dev/st0>] status show status of <device>

Useful Operations

mt [-f </dev/st0>] rewind rewind tape
mt [-f </dev/st0>] off / offline / eject eject tape
mt [-f </dev/st0>] load load tape

tapestat

Shows I/O of tape drives.

Use

tapestat <interval>[s] <count>[times] update stats every <interval> times <count>

Useful Flags

--human human readable