On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote:

> Que?  I didn't really understand from your sketchy
> description what you're trying to accomplish or what
> troubles you're seeing, but in common practice there
> are no "limits" on the size of a tarball.

Ok, let me try again.  :-)

I am attempting to tar up a directory for backup purposes.  I am issuing:
tar -czvf home.tar.gz home
After 40960000k the process stops with 'broken pipe'.

If I issue:
tar -cvf home2.tar home
It dies with 'File size limit exceeded'.  Also at 40960000k.

I have plenty of disk space, and have tarred them into a separate 
directory. We routinely do files larger than this on other machines, this 
one somehow got messed up.

Hope that's a little clearer.

thanks,

--charlie

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Charlie Farinella 
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