[plug] tar file limitation ?

[Dirk]

well its off to the dam tar command then ... have to use the latest version
and see how it goes thanks, and yeah after one day with mandrake I want to
format my office crash pc and wack it on :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Patrick [mailto:cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] tar file limitation ?
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:22:18PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> | A common size limit is 2 gigabytes for ext2/3 (except maybe newer
> | ext3, I'm not sure) and older versions of reiserfs.
>
> Since a couple of people have claimed this, I suppose I
> should point out
> that modern ext3 doesn't have the 2G limit - though I'm not
> sure of the
> cut-off for "modern".  Linux's FAT32 and SMB support has a 2 gig limit
> though :(
>
> (cameron at erdos ~) df -H /archive
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6               21G   9.5G    12G  46% /archive
> (cameron at erdos ~) mount | grep /archive
> /dev/hda6 on /archive type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> (cameron at erdos ~) dd if=/dev/zero of=/archive/temp/big.file
> bs=1M count=6000
> 6000+0 records in
> 6000+0 records out
> 6291456000 bytes transferred in 205.950770 seconds (30548349
> bytes/sec)
>
> Cameron.