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How can I tell the amount of storage used and available on an LTO 4 tape?

I have a printout from the tape that shows blocks and the file length of each library.

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This question is related to this similar question on Server Fault.

There is an attribute in LTO cartridge memory (LTO-CM or MAM). The attribute is "Remaining Capacity In Partition". You can read this value with LTO tape drive via SCSI command. You should take a look at this Linux bash script I created called LTO-CM-Read.

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