2006/4/6, Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>:
> On 2006-04-06 16:42, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
> > You can use amtapetype.   It took me about 2 days to get the results,
> > but it works and it is the only way to be sure.
>
> It works much faster (4-5 hours)when you had specified a
> realistic estimate:
>
>    amtapetape -e 35g ...
>
>     ...  The -e flag is there to  keep  the  number  of  file
>     marks  down  because  they  can  be slow (since they force the
>     drive to flush all its buffers to physical media).

Thanks for the explanation.  I will use the -e flag when I have to run it again.

> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions

I looked it up previously.  amtapetype gave me slightly different
numbers.  The tape size is shorter according to amtapetype.

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