Linux "tapestat" Command Line Options and Examples

Report tape statistics.

The tapestat command is used for monitoring the activity of tape drives connected to a system. The first report generated by the tapestat command provides statistics concerning the time since the system was booted, unless the -y option is used, when this first report is omitted. Each subsequent report covers the time since the previous report.

Usage:

tapestat [ -k | -m ] [ -t ] [ -V ] [ -y ] [ -z ] [ --human ] [ interval [ count ] ]

Related Commands

iostat
mpstat

Command Line Options:

--human

Print sizes in human readable format (e.g. 1k, 1.23M, etc.) The units displayed with this optionsupersede any other default units (e.g. kilobytes, sectors...) associated with the metrics.


                            tapestat --human ...

-V

Print version and exit.


                            tapestat -V ...

-y

Omit the initial statistic showing values since boot.


                            tapestat -y ...