From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Unix Subject: Re: Hao much tape have I used? Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:14:03 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200209091014.04314.unix@amigo.net.gt> References: <1031496143.22965.10.camel@Zebra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1031496143.22965.10.camel@Zebra> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org mt tell, tell you in which block of the tape are you located, so if you know how much blocks you tape has you can see how much tape is left. On Sunday 08 September 2002 08:42, Paul Furness wrote: > 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. -- Luis Valencia