Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:49:24 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Aaron Gifford <agifford@infowest.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) Message-ID: <199901080349.VAA46613@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:49:14 %2B1030." <19990108124913.I92409@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 18:33:15 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > 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? > > No. I didn't word things right. Correct wording is, "To write a file larger than 2G with tar on an SGI system..." The way I said it before suggests the tar archive itself was limited to 2G without the special option. -- 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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