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has caused the Debian Bug report #754593,
regarding mt erase is a full (long) erase, document it as such
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Package: mt-st
Version: 1.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Attached is a patch which improves the man page to say that 'mt erase'
is a full erase (not a quick one, erasing just the file/end-of-tape
marks).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14.12-ruru0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mt-st depends on:
ii libc6 2.18-7
mt-st recommends no packages.
mt-st suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/stinit.def changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
Author: Iustin Pop <[email protected]>
Description: Improve manual page for the erase subcommand
--- a/mt.1
+++ b/mt.1
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@
.I count
setmarks at current position (only SCSI tape).
.IP erase
-Erase the tape.
+Erase the tape. Note that this is a long erase, which on modern
+(high-capacity) tapes can take many hours, and which usually can't be
+aborted.
.IP status
Print status information about the tape unit. (If the density code is
"no translation" in the status output, this does not affect working of the
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Version: 1.1-6
Version 1.1-6 actually fixes this bug, but the changelog entry was
wrong.
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