On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:06:13AM +0100, ropers wrote: > On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > >a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Forgive me if this sounds impressively stupid, but would you not just > use ls(1) for that?
No, tapes are not block devices; only block devices hold filesystems. (When you think about it, this makes sense; seek times would be prohibitively high for tapes.) > >Also, is there a way to monitor the transfer rate to the > >tape device? > > I doubt that there's a trivial way to do that, and I'm not > knowledgeable enough to really be able to help with any non-trivial > way to do this. How about tar czpf / | dd obs=$BIGNUM > /dev/nrst0? More sophisticated methods are always possible, of course... Joachim