Guido Krein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using tar to create a .tgz and it seems that when the file > is bigger than 2GB "gzip -l" reports the wrong uncompressed filesize > and also a wrong compression ratio.
This is a problem with gzip, not tar. Unfortunately the gzip format, which is standardized by Internet RFC 1952 <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1952.txt>, stores the uncompressed size modulo 2**32. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
