You've got a couple of options. The first is to upgrade to 7.1 or 7.2 - I
believe it's a combination of the 2.4 kernel plus other things (like ext2
and ext3) that give you >2GB support. The second approach (and a good
short-term solution) is to pipe the output of tar into split and save the
files that way. That's the approach we currently use on our 6.2 systems.
You'd use something like this to split the file system into 1GB files into a
target directory.:
tar czl -f - $fs | split -b 1000m - ${target}-
.../Ed
Ed Wilts
Mounds View, MN, USA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Red Hat Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 1:24 AM
Subject: 2GB Limit?
> Redhat 7.0...
>
> I was attempting to tar/gzip a rather large directory and stumbled
upon a (probably) well known 2GB limit. The system is running ext2 all
around and it appears I can't go beyond this limit. Does anyone have any
suggestions to overcome this? I've got to be able to tar/gzip this
directory for archiving purposes.
>
> Would converting the drive to ext3 help? Does RH7.0 even support
ext3? Am I better off upgrading the OS to RH7.2, use a journaling volume
and go from there?
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