Still confused about what's a "blank" tape...

Hiya,
Please can someone point me at, because I haven't managed to find, an explanation of what OSB regards as a "blank" tape, and how this fits with labelling them?
If I pre-label and pre-assign a media family to a new tape using obtar, does this make OSB prefer it to a truly blank tape? Or does it only prevent it from being used if the media family doesn't match?
I ask because I pre-labelled one of the several tapes in our silo with the media family for the backup I was about to run, and ran the backup, expecting it to use that tape. I was a little perturbed to find that it had used a different tape, blatting all over what was on there previously.
Is this expected behaviour? I'd prefer to be able to control it better than this, as we are quite likely to have other tapes in the silo, some of which have useful data on them but are not OSB tapes. I don't like the idea of it randomly picking one and writing over it...
How can I tell OSB to only use the tapes I've explicitly told it it can? I imagined that was what labelling was all about, but it appears not.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks,
David

Ranguvar wrote:I'm pretty sure that goes against the FHS, which is why the current system. Some distros say screw it, but messing with standards is very bad, and the FHS is a biggie.
actually it doesn't:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64
The 64-bit architectures PPC64, s390x, sparc64 and AMD64 must place 64-bit libraries in /lib64, and 32-bit (or 31-bit on s390) libraries in /lib.
sure, arch isn't intended to be a multilib system, but there _are_ two directories lib and lib64, and both are created (and needed) by core (i don't know if extra too) and used by community packages.
so why not go the more transparent and simple way?

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