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Hello dnade,
What filesystem is the other box using? I don't think it is a kernel
restriction, but rather a filesystem restriction.
JBB
Monday, September 17, 2001, 9:58:33 AM, you wrote:
dan> Hmm Ok
dan> But I got another box which can do more than 4GB tar.gz.
dan> [root@gaia /bak/donia0]# ll -h *tar.gz
dan> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.1G sep 13 21:19 0.tar.gz
dan> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G sep 14 22:30 new0.tar.gz
dan> I think that the kernel 2.4.2-2 (from seawolf iso) can do >4GB files but
dan> the 2.4.3-12 (from updates.redhat.com) can not. Is this a (lack of)
dan> feature ?
dan> D
dan> JBB wrote :
>> Hello dnade,
>>
>> That is not a limitation on the Tar program. It is a limitation of the
>> filesystem. While the filesystem can be more than 4 gig in size, the
>> max size for a single file is 4 gig.
>>
>>
>> JBB
>>
>>
>> Monday, September 17, 2001, 3:49:34 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> dan> Hi everyone.
>>
>> dan> I have to make some big tar.gz files (over nfs) and it seems that i got
>> dan> a 4GB limit..
>>
>> dan> [1] - broken pipe tar zcf /bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz ^(1|2|lost*)
>> dan> [2] + broken pipe tar zcf /bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz 1
>>
>> dan> [root@gaia /data]# ll /bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz /bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz
>> dan> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967295 sep 14 22:30
>/bak/donia0/new0.tar.gz
>> dan> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967295 sep 15 08:51
>/bak/ethanol1/1.tar.gz
>> dan> [root@gaia /data]# df
>> dan> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> dan> [...]
>> dan> /dev/sdb8 59G 28G 28G 49% /data
>> dan> donia:/0 29G 16G 12G 57% /bak/donia0
>> dan> ethanol:/0 11G 6.2G 4.7G 57% /bak/ethanol1
>>
>> dan> Anybody can tell me how to bypass this limit ?
>>
>> dan> D
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