On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:39:47PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> Note that when you write a dump to a vtape, and you hit EOT, the
> last incomplete part of a dump is not erased, just like a real tape.

Yes, this is sub-optimal.

> So, many "incomplete" parts on a too small vtapes do take up real
> diskspace (and time too!).

2.5.0b2 has the tape_splitsize dumptype option.  I've set my config up
to check this out tonight.