[ILUG] 2 GB tar.gz file Q

[Brian Nesbitt]

 That'll be the 2GB limit on ext2fs. Try one of the
 newer journalinf file systems such as reiserfs.


On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Stephen Shirley wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:05:18 +0100 (IST)
> From: Stephen Shirley <diamond at csn.ul.ie>
> To: ILUG Mailing List <ilug at linux.ie>
> Subject: [ILUG] 2 GB tar.gz file Q
> 
> Mornin,
> 	I was trying to zip up a lot of stuff ( about 35 GBs )
> into a tar.gz file using the command:
> tar -czvf blah.tar.gz stuff/
> but it stopped after 2 GB and said that the file is too big.
> Now is that a limitation in tar, gzip, or ext2fs?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 

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