Jim Duda wrote: > >> >> At what distance into the 20G did it fill ? > > I write the backup using tar czf (compressed) > When I read it back, I get around 15G uncompressed. As far as I can tell, your tape drive (STT2000A) only holds 10G, so that sounds normal. Are you sure about the tape size? See e.g. http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2005-03/0639.html -jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html