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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:26:48 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gzip & bzip2 with large file
Message-ID:  <20010103102648.B20220@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org>; from "Mike Meyer" on Wed Jan  3 10:09:35 GMT 2001
References:  <5794@toto.iv> <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org>

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In the last episode (Jan 03), Mike Meyer said:
> Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw> types:
> > Hi, all. I have tried to gzip and bzip2 a large file (tar format,
> > size about 3 GB), it generate .tar.gz and tar.bz2 successfully. But
> > when I try to gunzip or bunzip2 the compressed file, it complains
> > "CRC error" and I can not get the original file. Has someone
> > encounter this problem too?
> 
> Last time I encountered this kind of thing, the problem was that tar
> couldn't deal with archives bigger than 2GB.

Until tar in the base system gets updated, you can install the latest
version from the ports tree, which will work on files over 2gb, and has
a working incremental mode.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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