From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The operation of the fsfm and bsfm arguments is mis-described in the mt man page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mt-st-0.8-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read the mt man page. 2. 3. Actual Results: The man page includes this description: bsfm Backward space count files. The tape is positioned on the first block of the next file. ... and similarly for fsfm. Expected Results: The bsfm description should say that "The tape is positioned on the first block of the previous file.", and that fsfm moves to the next file. Additional info: Even that description is a bit misleading, in that to re-read a tape file that you've just read requires a "bsfm 2" to return to the beginning of the just-read file. Perhaps something brief description of how file marks are used in tape positioning would be in order.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171340 ***