Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:33:15 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Aaron Gifford <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) Message-ID: <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Aaron Gifford <agifford@infowest.com> of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:18:24 MST." <199901060418.VAA11859@infowest.com>
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Aaron Gifford writes: > Hello, > > I just attached a DLT7000 drive to my FreeBSD box and have > been trying to put a very large file on the tape. I'm a > total newbie to this SCSI tape stuff. Here's what happened: > > # tar --create --file /dev/rst0 --verify super_big_four_gigabyte_plus_file > tar in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > super_big_four_gigabyte_plus_file: size differs > # > > What did I do wrong? I tried the same thing on some small > test files and it worked superbly. To write a tar file larger than 2G on an SGI system requires a special option to SGI's tar. Wonder if FreeBSD's GNU tar has a 2G filesize limit? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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