[plug] tar file limitation ?

Dirk dirk.modrow at aesltd.com.au
Wed May 21 15:33:02 WST 2003


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.



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