http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972954 Bug ID: 972954 Summary: hardware/mtx: tapeinfo no shows remaining size Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE 42.1 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: 3rd party software Assignee: jmatejek@suse.com Reporter: svalx78@gmail.com QA Contact: opensuse-communityscreening@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- I has write about 237Gb on to tape by GNU tar and get those tapeinfo output: # tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP ' Product ID: 'Ultrium 3-SCSI ' Revision: 'C26D' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: '**********' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 16777215 SCSI ID: 16 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: Not Loaded Density Code: 0x44 BlockSize: 0 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0x1 DeCompType: 0x1 Block Position: 1933551 Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 400308 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 400308 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 0 MaxPartitions: 0 Firstly, Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes tell me that I no used any tape space. Secondly, if I try to calculate the used space using the MaxBlock and Block Position data, I get obviously wrong value: about 11.5% used. But my backup data is not well compressible - it is video and photo. mt tell give me the same thing: At block 1933551. How to estimate the used space on tape? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.