Magnetic tape partitioning tool Wiki
command line tool to partition LTO-5+ tapes
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root@bareos:~# mtp |
TAPE Drive: /dev/nst0 (HP_Ultrium_7-SCSI_K4K1)
TAPE Density: 0x5c (LTO-7 max capacity: 6TB/5.46TiB)
Max partitions: 4
Partition size unit: x10^8byte (PSUM=3, PART_U=8)
Current partitions (1):
P_SZ.0=60000 (6000GB/5587GiB)
P_SZ.1=0 (0byte)
P_SZ.2=0 (0byte)
P_SZ.3=0 (0byte)
Select partitioning method:
0 => exit
1-4 => create equal size partitions
5-7 => create two, three or four partitions
8 => create vendor defined partitions (for LTFS)
please select [0]> 3
Equal size partitions selected
Number of partitions: 3
Formatting parameters:
- APD=2 (Additional partitions defined)
- FDP=0 (Fixed data partitions)
- SDP=1 (Select data partitions)
- IDP=0 (Initiator defined partitions)
Start partitioning? (y/) >