Hi all,

referrring to my previous posting, I have also written a shell script to be 
executed as root, which prepares IOmega disks for the use with amanda. More 
precisely, it
- formats the disk, checking for bad sectors
- mounts the disk and adds a data subdirectory
- makes user amanda owner of this data sub directory
- calls amlabel to label the disk
- unmounts and ejects the disk.

Unlike the changer script mentioned in my previous posting, this is not 
generally usable as is, because it is relying on a couple of settings of 
personal taste, such as
- IOmega disks are partitioned and the fourth primary partition is taking the 
whole disk. So the disk is visible as /dev/sda4.
- I am preferring to use an ext2 filesystem on the disk (rather then a dos or 
vfat file system)
- I am doing a chown of the data sub directory such that - depending on the 
umask setting - only user amanda and root can see the files written to the 
disk.

Writing this, I am not asking to add this for general distribution, or at most 
hiding it in an appropriate example directory of the general distribution.

If anyone is interested to see this script, please send me email.
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Dr. Christoph Pospiech
High Performance & Parallel Computing
Advanced Computing Technology Center
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