On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Nuno Morgadinho wrote: > How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? > > #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup > /fitabackup/server1.tgz > /fitabackup/server3.tgz > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * > > server3.tgz has 10.0Gb.
I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please
provide the EXACT message, and an ls -l of the /fitabackup dir.
ustar is supposed to handle files up to 64G.
-Otto
