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TAPE(1) General Commands Manual TAPE(1) NAME tape, mt - identify and manipulate magnetic tape SYNOPSIS tape mt [ -t tapename ] command [ count ] DESCRIPTION Tape experiments with the magnetic tape drive and reports under which device name the tape mounted there can be read, how many files and records there are, and how big the records are. Mt applies a command to the named tape drive (default /dev/nrmt1) count times (default 1). The commands are eof write end-of -file mark fsf forward space file fsr forwardspace record bsf backspace file bsr backspace record rewind rewind offline rewind and take off line FILES /dev/nrmt1 SEE ALSO tm(4), dd(1) TAPE(1)