Managing the AMASS File System

View Status for One Element

Be careful when you ask for the status for a single element because the output could be misleading, as illustrated in this example.

To display the inventory for one element, perform the following steps:

Step 1. Log in as root.

#su root

Step 2. Using the previous example, we request an inventory for home storage slot 0A01 in library number 2:

#cd /usr/amass/utils

#medialist -s 0A01 -j 2

The output is similar to the following example:

SLOT 0A01 EMPTY

Because the output says “EMPTY” you would assume that home storage slot 0A01 is available.

However, the media that is normally in slot 0A01 is currently in drive

1.We know this because of the output from the previous example that stated “DRIVE 1 SCSI_ID 5 FULL FROM 0A01 INVERTED.”

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