Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 17:45:47 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson <rkatsnel@globix.com> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <adg@infowest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? Message-ID: <3693E79B.B9396439@globix.com> References: <199901062241.PAA28780@infowest.com>
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"Aaron D. Gifford" wrote: > > Okay, call me a nutcase, but I can't figure out why TAR always bails out > at exactly 255328256 bytes written of a huge 4GB file I'm trying to dump > to tape. At first, it would quit with an error so I downloaded the latest > GNU tar from GNU's FTP site, installed and compiled it. It too bails out > at the same spot, but without an error. > > Any ideas anyone? hi nutcase, can the tape be out of space at that point? hth, roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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