You're missing the point.  The percentage is the the amount of live data versus 
the
expired data.  Has nothing to do with the quantity of data on a tape.

Rod Richeson
AMX Systems, Inc.
rricheson AT amxinc DOT com

ALLEN BARTH wrote:

>      I'll disagree here, because you can't calculate %empty until you know
>      what full is.
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator 
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: reclamation
> Author:  David Cannon <cannon AT US.IBM DOT COM> at ~Internet
> Date:    12/1/97 6:38 PM
>
> >Reclamation will only occur on tapes that are marked as "full".  Filling
> >tapes will not be reclaimed until they have first been marked "full", and
> >then are found to be candidates for reclamation.
>
> Tapes are reclaimed if  they satisfy the reclamation threshold, regardless of
> whether the tapes have been marked full.
>
> Dave Cannon