Re: VOLHDR or something

"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:34:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
Message-ID	<001801c6016b$922cdd20$fd01a8c0@zoran>

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is it possible to mark tapes somehow? I would like to name tapes and
>> than before I do backup, I will read tape name, than do backup and
>> write tape name in log.
>> Can VOLHDR function be used somehow for this purpose?
> 
> Why not?

If I use

star -c f=/dev/st0 VOLHDR=Test .

How can I read VOLHDR from tape?
I don't want to extract nothing but a VOLHDR.

Zoran