John Almberg wrote:
Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency
backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory.
My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is
already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching this
file grow, I'm wondering if there is some file size limit that is
going to make this long backup abort.
Naturally, that will happen when the backup is almost complete :-)
-- John
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Max file size 2^73 bytes
(8 ZiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>)
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Adam Vandemore
Systems Administrator
IMED Mobility
(605) 498-1610
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