From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 08:16:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:16:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kstreet.interlog.com (kstreet.interlog.com [198.53.146.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03568 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kws@kstreet.interlog.com) Received: (from kws@localhost) by kstreet.interlog.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA23811; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:15:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kws) To: "Aaron D. Gifford" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? References: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> From: Kevin Street Date: 07 Jan 1999 11:15:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Aaron D. Gifford"'s message of "Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:49:49 -0700 (MST)" Message-ID: <87u2y3jbzq.fsf@kstreet.interlog.com> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Aaron D. Gifford" writes: > "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? > >> Do the login.conf filesize settings apply to tapes? What does `limits' say yours is set to? -- Kevin Street street@iName.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message