From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 17:03:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04405 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04341 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:02:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-135.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.135]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA31963; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:02:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA39895; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:33:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Aaron Gifford cc: FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) In-reply-to: Message from Aaron Gifford of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:18:24 MST." <199901060418.VAA11859@infowest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:33:15 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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