This happened to me on a system running Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) -- haven't
tried it yet under 7.04. I am creating the tar file on an external
ieee1394 ("firewire") drive with the manufacturer's FAT32 formatting.

Under Edgy, Archive Manager put up a dialog saying an error occurred
while writing the archive. Upon clicking the "Command Line Output"
button, the message said "File size limit exceeded (core dumped)."

I won't bother attaching the crash report, but I will confirm that I
just looked at the archive file I was trying to create, and Nautilus
reports that the file is "4.0 GB (4294967295 bytes)"

I see nothing else unusual about the file.

Because Cylou68 said he also had the crash when attempting to cp the
file, it seems possible this is a bug in the filesystem handling for
FAT32. I'll try to confirm it and report back here.

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Tar is crashing on FAT32 writing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/72756
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