Re: trying to tar 4GB size files

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:57 GMT

Luke MacNeil wrote:

> Geof Gibson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to tar folders down to 4 GB sized tarballs so I can burn them
>> to DVDs.
>> This is the command I've used:
>> tar -cvML 4000000 -f tarball1.tar -f tarball2.tar source_dir/
>>
>> When I do this, it only tars a 372K file for traball1.tar then exits
>> with an 'Error is not recoverable: exiting now.'
>>
>> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions?
>>
>> geofgibson@cox.net
>>
> I had a similar problem writing a backup script. My problem was with the
> stat() function and was a limitation of glibc.. It couldn't handle file
> sizes larger that 4GB. Could be related to your problem somehow. I never
> found a solution.

I may be wrong, but I have found if the file system is
windope then big files won't work above 2Gb.

You need ext3 filesystem where you are doing this operation
to get over 2Gb file limit problems.

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