On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:40, joe henderson wrote: > All, > > Is there a way to turn on gzips "larger file size" bit in the install? > > I have a few backup files that are 4+ GB.. I do not want to > split the tars in multiple files to achieve this... > > > Advise.. > > Joe
This is not an answer to your question, but have you considered using bzip2 instead? It will create archives in excess of 4 Gb, and bzip2 (through bzip2recover) will get you closer to recovering data from corrupted archives. -eli _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
