In <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-12/msg00022.html> you gave this scenario as causing the problem:
tar -rMf /dev/st0 /home/nas/PC_hry/GTA_IV.rar with tar responding this way: tar: value 15015536189 out of off_t range 0..8589934591 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Unfortunately this is not a complete scenario, since it uses "tar -r", which appends to an already-existing tar file on /dev/st0. How was /dev/st0 initialized, before the above command was run? Here's why I'm asking the question. I can reproduce the diagnostic as follows: echo small >small echo some text | dd of=big obs=1 seek=9000000000 rm -f big*.tar tar -c -H ustar -f big1.tar small tar --tape-length=100000000c -rM -f big1.tar -f big2.tar -f big3.tar big With this scenario, tar responds this way: tar: value 9000000010 out of off_t range 0..8589934591 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors This is clearly a bug in 'tar', because it should not be attempting to do multivolume dumps with ustar format (POSIX.1-1998), as that format does not support multivolume dumps. However, before pursuing a fix I thought I'd first confirm that something like this is indeed your problem.
