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Re: GNU TAR


From: Tauno Voipio
Subject: Re: GNU TAR
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:59:41 GMT

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> I am using version 1.13.11 (Redhat 6.1 Linux 2.2.12) and am getting the
> following errors reported
>
> tar: Cannot write to /bigdisk/tmidev.tar: File too large
>
> Can you tell me what the limit is ? and is there a fix for this ?
>

There is a 31 bit limit in the kernel file pointers (about 2 Gbytes).

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi





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