Hi, shred -v /dev/st0 # where /dev/st0 is the drive in a multi tape carousel. This starts well with. Pass 1/4 (random) 15MiB Pass 1/4 (random) 41MiB Pass 1/4 (random) 70MiB Pass 1/4 (random).....etc But when the end of a 200GiB tape is reached in pass 1, 'shred' doesn't appear to trigger a rewind or maybe wait for the tape to be rewound before attempting to overwrite the data. The final messages before and around the error are:- Pass 1/4 (random) 190GiB/190GiB 100% Pass 2/4 (random) Error writing at offset 1288. No space left on device. (The next line in my script then runs and unloads the tape.) Is this not rewinding the tape a bug or my mis-use of the 'shred' command? Thanks Rupert Russell OPERATIONS MANAGER [60-Ilmor-logo-72dpi] Ilmor Engineering Ltd Quarry Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, NN6 9UB, UK Direct: +44 (0)1604 799105 Main: +44 (0)1604 799100 Web: www.ilmor.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail may contain confidential and /or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error)please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this email is strictly forbidden. This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com