Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/06/2011 09:51 AM, bocek.pa...@post.cz wrote:
> I am a bit lost with the initialization,

That sort of thing tends to be drive-specific, but
something like this might do it:

mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind
tar cf /dev/rst0 /dev/null
mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind