On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:56, Charles Farinella wrote: > 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.
If I read this right, that's a 40GB tar file you're trying to make? What filesystem are you using? ext2/3? -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
