On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Hugo Bouckaert wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to tar and gzip some very large directories, using tar
> version 1.12-4.
> I find that each time I get the message:
>
> "stdout File too large"
>
> on the command line when the job finishes (or exists too soon?).
> (....)
> I am starting to wonder if I have to worry about this message. The tar
> archives are both rather large so that maybe everything is tarred up
> after all. However, how can I be sure - this is a bit hard to verify.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with getting such a message? Does anyone
> knows whether the tar archive is OK or not?
>
I think GNU tar has an command line option to compare the archive with the
filesystem. I have never used it, but I have seen it in the documentation
somewhere. However, would tar simply compare a list of files or actual
sizes etc -- I don't know.
I don't think tar does checksums(from what I gathered from my older
version of the linux administrators guide), so maybe the only way to test
an archive's validity is to untarr it somewhere else and test it???? For
something that may be approaching 2GB that would really me a pain...
