tar question

On 31/10/06, Joachim Schipper <j.schippermath.uu.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:06:13AM +0100, ropers wrote:
> > On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <mikessignull.com> wrote:
> > >After tar has finished writing to the tape
device is there
> > >a way to see how large the finished tar on
tape is?
> >
> > Forgive me if this sounds impressively stupid, but
would you not just
> > use ls(1) for that?
>
> No, tapes are not block devices; only block devices
hold filesystems.
> (When you think about it, this makes sense; seek times
would be
> prohibitively high for tapes.)

Ah! Thank you!