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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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Subject: Suggestion: move mt(1) to /bin
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>Number:         11205
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Suggestion: move mt(1) to /bin
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 18 12:40:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu Oct 11 15:06:31 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu Oct 11 15:07:27 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Christian Weisgerber
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

Restoring a system from tape without /usr being available.

>Description:

Currently, mt(1) is in /usr/bin. I suggest to move it to /bin,
where it can be of use when restoring backups. Having to space
forward/backward on a tape drive with dd(1) and /dev/{n,}rsaX is
a nuisance. I suspect there are also systems out there where mt
is required to set drive modes (compression, density, etc) before
you can restore from tape.

Note that both NetBSD and OpenBSD have mt in /bin.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: johan 
State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 11 14:43:00 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
In PR 18312 (http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18312) 
it was suggested to use 'restore -s' instead as a solution 
to this problem. 
Will that work for you as well? 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11205 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: johan 
State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 11 15:06:31 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mail to submitter bounces and this PR has been superseeded 
by PR 18312 which is closed. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11205 
>Unformatted:
