From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 18:20:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14328 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA21242; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:49:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA95110; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:49:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:49:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: Aaron Gifford , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) Message-ID: <19990108124913.I92409@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901070033.SAA39895@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:33:15PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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