From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: Hao much tape have I used? Date: 08 Sep 2002 15:42:23 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1031496143.22965.10.camel@Zebra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Can anyone tell me how to find out how full a tape is? Specifically, DLT and LTO tapes which are in a robot. I have no problem loading the tapes into the drive (using MTX) and mt works just fine - but after putting a load of dumps on the tape, I need to know it the tape is actually full or not. And of course, the tape drive uses hardware compression, so I can't just add up the data dumped and subtract it from the capacity of the tape because the compression is variable. Any ideas / experiences with this would be appreciated. P. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.