Re: BAH! I've taken a dump and want to verify it ;)

[Myk Taylor <myk@ucla.edu>]

> I thought, that I could do this manually by mounting the tape, taking a 
> peek at it to see if it looked good, then restoring the file systems via 
> restore.  But, when I try to mount the tape I get this:
> 
> valhalla: /home/rvb01 $ sudo mount -r /dev/st0 /mnt
> mount_ffs: /dev/st0 on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format

Assuming you didn't mount the tape to write the dump, you don't need to 
mount the tape to read it.  Read from the device itself like this:

restore -if /dev/sd0

(i for interactive)

--myk