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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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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.




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