Ummm. Embarrassingly, I failed to notice the truncated size of the file: 4294967295 bytes, or 2**32-1.
This is saving the tar file to a FAT formatted usb drive, whose maximum file size is the above number. Solution: just split the file into smaller chunks, or reformat the external drive to some less limited filesystem like ext2/3. -karim -- gzip stopped unexpectedley when i was backing up to a external usb hard drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
