Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:49:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Aaron Gifford <agifford@infowest.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) Message-ID: <19990108124913.I92409@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:33:15PM -0600 References: <agifford@infowest.com> <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 18:33:15 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > 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? No. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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