The Ftape Tools Manual - Invoking Vtblc
The following is some sample output produced by vtblc --print
.
claus@anaximander:/automount/home/claus/ > vtblc --print Nr Id Label Date Start End Space -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 VTBL "zftape volume 000 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 3 109 0.20% 1 VTBL "zftape volume 001 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 110 216 0.20% 2 VTBL "zftape volume 002 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 217 2559 4.32%
Same cartridge, but after setting the date of the second volume table
with vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=date
claus@anaximander:/automount/home/claus/ > vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=date Nr Id Label Date Start End Space -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 VTBL "zftape volume 000 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 3 109 0.20% 1 VTBL "zftape volume 001 " 17:43:00 07/31/98 110 216 0.20% 2 VTBL "zftape volume 002 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 217 2559 4.32%
Same cartridge, but after setting the label of the last volume to
something funny with vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=label="something funny"
and after resetting the date with
vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=date="00:00:00 01/01/70
claus@anaximander:/automount/home/claus/ > vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=date="00:00:00 01/01/70 claus@anaximander:/automount/home/claus/ > vtblc --print --vtbl-entry=1 --modify=label="something funny" Nr Id Label Date Start End Space -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 VTBL "zftape volume 000 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 3 109 0.20% 1 VTBL "zftape volume 001 " 00:00:00 01/01/70 110 216 0.20% 2 VTBL "something funny " 00:00:00 01/01/70 217 2559 4.32%
You may want to try ftape-tool to manipulate the volume table in a much more comfortable way (see Ftape-tool).
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