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Hello dnade,

That is not a limitation on the Tar program.  It is a limitation of the
filesystem.  While the filesystem can be more than 4 gig in size, the
max size for a single file is 4 gig.


JBB


Monday, September 17, 2001, 3:49:34 AM, you wrote:


dan> Hi everyone.

dan> I have to make some big tar.gz files (over nfs) and it seems that i got
dan> a 4GB limit..

dan> [1]  - broken pipe  tar zcf /bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz ^(1|2|lost*)
dan> [2]  + broken pipe  tar zcf /bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz 1

dan> [root@gaia /data]# ll /bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz /bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz
dan> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     4294967295 sep 14 22:30 /bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz
dan> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     4294967295 sep 15 08:51 /bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz
dan> [root@gaia /data]# df
dan> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dan> [...]
dan> /dev/sdb8              59G   28G   28G  49% /data
dan> donia:/0               29G   16G   12G  57% /bak/donia0
dan> ethanol:/0             11G  6.2G  4.7G  57% /bak/ethanol1

dan> Anybody can tell me how to bypass this limit ?

dan>         D




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