[Mtx-general] OT: drive capacity (was AIT-3 Tape full with 42G)

[<And...@wi...>]

> If you want to really know how many bytes you can put on tape, I 
recommend using dd. something like
 
                 /bin/yes | dd of=/dev/rmt/0c bs=1000

I tried this and its seemed take all day, but when I killed it, I got:
5188091+893263 records in

which  man dd says means:
 f+p records in(out)
           numbers of full and partial blocks read(written)

I'm guessing dd won't quit when the tape is full and so it was just 
hung/blocked on the write?

a

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