On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:23:08AM +0000, Max Power wrote: > Hi guys. > OpenBSD never ceases to amaze me...!! > > Solved the problem about maximum compression with bzip2 by tar, there's > another... > while tar run [tar cvvf - directory | bzip2 -9 -v > directory.tbz2], at a > certain point, return: > tar: file is too long for ustar .... > The file that creates the problem is 30GB. > > What happen? > How Can I fix this problem...? > Thanks.
Base tar is only capable to pack files <10GB. You can switch to archivers/gtar.
