On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > OK, then the cpio man page in -current is in error.
That's my mistake, I asked jmc@ to change it to 64GB where it is actually 8GB, cpio doesn't add a space or null termination on the 12th digit so it should be ok, only tar and ustar were off. When I looked at it I must have looked at tar_rd() and saw it use asc_ul() which doesn't care much for the terminator and didn't look at tar_wr() which uses uqd_oct() that adds the terminator thus shortening the amount of digits for the octal value. Here is the updated patch: Index: cpio.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/pax/cpio.1,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -r1.22 cpio.1 --- cpio.1 15 Nov 2005 00:00:28 -0000 1.22 +++ cpio.1 3 Jan 2006 16:54:12 -0000 @@ -292,8 +292,8 @@ .It bcpio Ta 4 Gigabytes .It sv4cpio Ta 4 Gigabytes .It cpio Ta 8 Gigabytes -.It tar Ta 64 Gigabytes -.It ustar Ta 64 Gigabytes +.It tar Ta 8 Gigabytes +.It ustar Ta 8 Gigabytes .El .Sh BUGS The ---- CUT HERE --- > BTW, to solve the OP problem: try using dump(8) instead of tar(1). > > -Otto Sorry for the misinformation which was caused by me. -peter
