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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Tarred files not being put on tape Post 302429682 by rahmantanko on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 07:23:16 AM
Old 06-15-2010
Hi
This is the message I see when I do

Code:
ls -la /dev/rmt/0*

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          49 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0 -> ../../device
s/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0b -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:b
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0bn -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:bn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0c -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:c
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0cb -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:cb
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          52 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0cbn -> ../../dev
ices/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:cbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0cn -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:cn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0h -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:h
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0hb -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:hb
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          52 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0hbn -> ../../dev
ices/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:hbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0hn -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:hn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0l -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:l
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0lb -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:lb
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          52 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0lbn -> ../../dev
ices/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:lbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0ln -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:ln
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0m -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:m
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0mb -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:mb
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          52 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0mbn -> ../../dev
ices/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:mbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0mn -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:mn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          50 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0u -> ../../devic
es/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:u
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0ub -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:ub
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          52 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0ubn -> ../../dev
ices/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:ubn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          51 Nov 13  2006 /dev/rmt/0un -> ../../devi
ces/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/st@5,0:un

My OS is Solaris 9 on sun 3500 server.

I also realised that a file named 0n which is very huge is created in the location /dev/rmt any time I issue the tar command. I have been using this command for years without any problem.

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