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8.1: Vtblc Overview

vtblc is a small utility (based on a library written in `C') which lets you modify the volume table segment of a floppy tape cartridge. vtblc requires ftape-3.04d (and later versions). It uses the MTIOCRDFTSEG and MTIOCWRFTSEG ioctls provided by the ftape floppy tape driver (see MTIOCRDFTSEG and MTIOCWRFTSEG (info file ftape-4)).

The API of the library is documented in a separate section of this chapter. See API.

vtblc is used as a backend by the ftape-tool (see Ftape-tool) GUI front-end.

Please be very careful when using this program. Improper use can damage the volume table information of your floppy tape cartridge, which will make it very hard to recover your data.

If you simply run vtblc with no arguments, however, it will simply print the contents of the volume table segment of the cartridge of the tape drive corresponding to `/dev/nrawft0' to stdout.


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