[Gllug] How much space left on a tape...

[salsaman]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>...is there a way to find this out. I am happily compressing 14GB of
>stuff on to a 4GB tape at the moment using .tar.bz2 but fear that, as
>data expands, I'll shortly need to look at an alternative - the question
>is: how shortly?
>
>  
>
I don't know the answer to that, but maybe you should use tar -L ?

 From the manpage:

       -L, --tape-length=NUMBER
              change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes


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