[plug] tar file limitation ?

[Quintin Lette]

We'll convert you yet ;)

On Wed, 21 May 2003 03:33 pm, Dirk wrote:
> 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.