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free space on tape

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230173

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Jun 22, 2001
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Hi,

How can i see how much freespace is taken from a tape device.
When it's written with tar.

Thnx
 
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Simple - you can't. Because of hardware compression and the different types of data on the tape, you will not eb able to determine this.

Bill.
 
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