>
> Is there a way to write a query to identify a writeable volume.  I just
> need the volume name.
>
> I am using now
> KSH#mminfo -mV -q '!readonly'
>    volume                  written  (%)  expires     read mounts capacity
> flags
> M  MON                      172 GB 100%    manual    0 KB     4    100 GB

You also don't want 'full' volumes.

mminfo -a -q '!readonly,!full' -r 'volume'

> I was using
> mminfo -mV -q '!readonly' 2>/dev/null | grep -v volume | awk '{print $1}'
>
> But this fails if the volume is 'manual' recycle.

How does it fail?  Does it print when it shouldn't, or not print when it
should?

Whether a volume is set to be manually recyclable only shouldn't affect
whether it's appendable or not.

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