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 thought the first time that the job didn't complete properly, that is,
that the tar job exited before completing because what I was trying to
tar up was simply too large. So I spit the directories to be tarred up
into two (directories A to L in one tar job, and directories M to Z in
the other). So each tar archive had to tar up half of what was done
before. I still got the output "stdout File too large, for both tar
archives.
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?
Any information will be most appreciated.
Thanks
Hugo
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Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA
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