On 12/17/2010 07:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: > "15015536189 of type off_t is out of range 0..8589934591".
That looks like a message generated by tar 1.13, released in 1999. (You can check this by running "tar --version".) Please try an up-to-date version; lots of bugs in this area have been fixed since 1999. The current version is tar 1.25, released in November. As far as I know, the oldest version of tar still supported by Ubuntu is 1.15.1 (dated 2004; in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS dated 2006), and even that old version of tar didn't generate those messages. I could be wrong about that; but even so, we're mostly interested in bugs in the current version.
