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if –remove ,–mark–unreliable ,–mark–unusable

or –mark–

good option is specified, skip FSE administrator’s confirmation of FSE medium removal, marking the medium unreliable, marking it unusable or marking it "good"; treat it as if FSE administrator would have an- swered the confirmation question with "Yes".

if the –duplicateoption is specified, allow duplication also to FSE media that either contain valid data or header such as a tar archive, ECMA or ANSI label, have already been initialized, or belong to FSE media pool that is already assigned to an FSE partition.

–i ,–init

Initialize the specified or all FSE medium volumes on the FSE medium with barcode Barcode. Initializing an FSE medium volume means (over– )writing its volume header, thus preparing this volume for usage in the FSE implementation.

Note:

FSE medium volume must be associated (via its FSE medium and FSE media pool) to an FSE partition before it can be initialized. If the medium volume is not empty, its initialization is allowed only if ad- ditional option –forceis specified. Backup media should not be ini- tialized, but formatted only.

–no–monitor

Disable monitoring of the formatting, initialization, maintenance, or reorga- nization job which is to be performed on the FSE medium. Monitoring is en- abled by default. For details on monitoring, see section JOB PROGRESS MONITORING.

VolumeNumber...

A non–negative integer value or a sequence of such values which repre- sent(s) the position(s) of FSE medium volume(s) on the medium layout.

–mark–unreliable

Disallow writing to the FSE medium with barcode Barcode. From that moment on, the data on the medium can only be read. This is done by setting the status of this medium in the Resource Management Database

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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