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

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>
> > Try a test like this:
> > 	dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1045876 count=1500
>
> hmm. it's not tar then. I can't even create a file of 1.5G, but can create
> 750MB, and 1024MB. (I have plenty of free space, about 60G).

nothing in /var/log, however doing the dd under strace, the last
write(1,..) returns -1 (EFBIG) and the process is killed by SIGFXSZ.
Nothing I didn't already know, but there you are.

Joe

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