Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-03 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:03:16PM +0100, Peter Philipp wrote: > > Index: cpio.1 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/pax/cpio.1,v > retrieving revision 1.22 > diff -u -r1.22 cpio.1 > --- cpio.1 15 Nov 2005 00:00:28 - 1.22 > +

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-03 Thread Peter Philipp
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > OK, then the cpio man page in -current is in error. That's my mistake, I asked jmc@ to change it to 64GB where it is actually 8GB, cpio doesn't add a space or null termination on the 12th digit so it should be ok, only tar and ustar

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:05:21PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for > > > a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated > > > into hd->size. > > > > Wonder if hd->si

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:05:21PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for > > a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated > > into hd->size. > > Wonder if hd->size should be 0-terminated, but no time to check now. IM

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * [...] > > server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. > > I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please > provide the EXACT message, and an ls -l of the /fitabackup d

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * > [...] > > > server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. > > > > I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please > > pr

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Nuno Morgadinho wrote: > How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? > > #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup > /fitabackup/server1.tgz > /fitabackup/server3.tgz > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * > > server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. I must be stupid

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:35:28PM +, Nuno Morgadinho wrote: > How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? > > #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup > /fitabackup/server1.tgz > /fitabackup/server3.tgz > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * > > server3.tgz has 10.0G

tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Nuno Morgadinho
How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup /fitabackup/server1.tgz /fitabackup/server3.tgz * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * server3.tgz has 10.0Gb.