On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > * 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.
It's in /usr/src/bin/tar/tar.c, line 1028.
> ustar is supposed to handle files up to 64G.
If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for
a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated
into hd->size.
Ciao,
Kili
