On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:41:58PM -0500, judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT 
com wrote:
> So I believe that bplabel (no erase) just rewrites in the "label" part
> at the front of the tape.
> Where the short erase makes a gap (meaning that the first BOD for an
> image is destroyed).

Makes sense to me, and both serve my purpose.  They're virtually
equivalent today, but on older tapes I'll bet that would have made a
difference.  Since both seem to exit with status code 23 rather than 0
on normal labels, and since -erase adds output, I'm just going to let it
relabel.

I was kind of hoping that -erase would be similar to Networker's relabel
command, which will erase a volume without confirmation only if it
already has the same internal label.  You can't accidentally change the
equivalent of the RVSN that way.  But no such luck.

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Darren
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