[TriLUG] tar-1.14 can't make large files

[Brian Daniels]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:13:51AM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I can't make a file over 1Gbyte with tar-1.14 (the latest tar). I have
> glibc-2.3.2, gcc-2.95.3, mke2fs-1.32 (from Nov 2002, the latest e2fsprogs
> is 1.35).
> 
> This is an older system. I'm wondering what else I need to be
> able to make files >1Gbyte.
> 

My quick guess is that the filesystem you're on will not support large 
files.  How old a system, and what distro?

--Brian


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