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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:41:37 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote:

> You can’t mount a regular 9 track or many other types because they 
> weren’t block replaceable.  Once you wrote the superblock the second 
> time, you lost the rest of the filesystem.

So you mount it read-only...

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."