mt
Control magnetic tape drive operation (commonly LTO tape).
TLDR
Check the status of a tape drive
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] status
Rewind the tape to beginning
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] rewind
Move forward a given files, then position the tape on first block of next file
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] fsf [count]
Rewind the tape, then position the tape at beginning of the given file
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] asf [count]
Position the tape at the end of valid data
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] eod
Rewind the tape and unload/eject it
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX] eject
Write EOF (End-of-file) mark at the current position
$ mt -f [/dev/nstX} eof
