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Re: inquiry concerning tar maximum archive size
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: inquiry concerning tar maximum archive size |
Date: |
13 Jun 2003 21:55:40 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
grenoml <address@hidden> writes:
> is there some internal limitation in tar as to the maximum size of
> an archive?
Portable tar format has an 8 GiB limit. 1.13.25, if compiled
correctly, should have a limit so large that you shouldn't run into it
(2**95, if I recall correctly), though it uses a format that is not
standard if your archive contains a file that is 8 GiB or larger.
Possibly the limit is associated with your filesystem rather than with
tar. Or it's possible that your tar wasn't built correctly.