Label types (standard labels)

Position of the label	Label type	Label identifier	Permissible labels
Beginning of tape	Volume header label	VOL	VOL1
	User volume header label	UVL	UVL1 ... UVL9
Start of file or start of file section	File header label	HDR	HDR1 ... HDR3
	User file header label	UHL	UHL0 ... UHL255
End of file section (except for the last file section)	End-of-volume label	EOV	EOV1 ... EOV3
	User end-of-volume label	UTL	UTL0 ... UTL255
End of file or end of the last file section	End-of-file label	EOF	EOF1 ... EOF3
	User-trailer label	UTL	UTL0 ... UTL255

Table 26: Label types (standard labels)