[Jonathan Applebaum]

Actually, just learned how to do this from the folks at Discovery. On Mac OSX one would use the xattr command, along with an extended attribute. So, for example, if you have an LTFS volume mounted as “ltfs”, the command to check to see which partition the metadata.xml file is in would be:

xattr -p ltfs.partition /volumes/ltfs/metadata.xml

The command will return either an “a” or a “b”, where “a” is the index partition and “b” is the data partition. So if you receive an “a”, the metadata file is correctly placed in the index partition.

Important note: The index partition is typically not updated immediately, so don’t run this command until you’re sure that has occurred (though a more frequent interval can be specified, the index is always written when a tape is unmounted).

– Jonathan

[Jonathan Applebaum]

Tom,

Can you provide the command equivalent for Mac OS? I’ve tried xattr, but am not receiving what I believe is the proper information.