On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Brian Daniels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:13:51AM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > > I can't make a file over 1Gbyte with tar-1.14 (the latest tar). I have > > glibc-2.3.2, gcc-2.95.3, mke2fs-1.32 (from Nov 2002, the latest e2fsprogs > > is 1.35). > > > > This is an older system. I'm wondering what else I need to be > > able to make files >1Gbyte. > > > > My quick guess is that the filesystem you're on will not support large > files. How old a system,
It's a 120G drive less than a year old, so it would have been formatted with mke2fs-1.32 from Nov 2002. > and what distro? SLS Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
