From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 21:16:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03395 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:16:11 -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 VAA03390 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:16:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-161.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.161]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA02392; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:15:38 -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 VAA46613; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:49:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901080349.VAA46613@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: David Kelly , Aaron Gifford , FreeBSD Questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:49:14 +1030." <19990108124913.I92409@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:49:24 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 18:33:15 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > 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. I didn't word things right. Correct wording is, "To write a file larger than 2G with tar on an SGI system..." The way I said it before suggests the tar archive itself was limited to 2G without the special option. -- 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