Re: Tape Command

Wrong group, ok, there is no real way of telling how much 'free space' is on a tape short of determining how much is stored on it. That of course depends on what wrote it. You can try this idea if your shell scripting is up. dd if=/dev/rmt/0n of=/dev/null bs=1024 (change the 0n to your norewind device) note the amount of blocks read and keep repeating until the dd returns an error. then rewind the tape. You now will have a rough idea of how much is stored on there. If the device is set to use compression, forget this idea. Besides, tapes are cheap brett chelsia wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody know how to see the contents of the tape? > How many free space and used space in the tape? > Thanks... > > -- > Best Regards, > Chelsia -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 11th law of UNIX administration... Users think that Y2K was a non-event... well... They havn't got our overtime bills yet :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------