Command-line tool

mt

winget/Deliro.Mt

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Control magnetic tape drive operation (commonly LTO tape). ham-radio meshtastic lora ble

At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Deliro.Mt -e

Check the status of a tape drive

mt -f /dev/nstX status

Rewind the tape to beginning

mt -f /dev/nstX rewind

Move forward a given files, then position the tape on first block of next file

mt -f /dev/nstX fsf count

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