From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 02:58:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD93116A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:58:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuxgirl@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6D243D60 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:58:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuxgirl@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so1011828wra for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:58:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=epXUz74TfJAJ3LL+66+H6ogTwrv9yD/gcaj/UDmPAjI0InI1qbOv0rm+5ubMKoiMJ0UGn0Ltkg+3VWbu8GAr60CC2VnDgn91cbJPFTfdtxq/KS5/JbAF7wt2b96nqvyYSrikbMLnm+olcvgOY9u3RgFcPhs6sNmsC4IrH24auKU= Received: by 10.65.110.8 with SMTP id n8mr2647136qbm; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.194.11 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:58:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:58:15 -0700 From: TuxGirl To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:58:16 -0000 I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd. I'm now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over some sort of filesystem limit or something. None of the commands that I have tried seem to like the file. Each of them gives the same error: /cdrom/music.tgz: Value too large to be stored in data type It doesn't complain about another gzipped tarball on the same disk which is around 1.3 GB, but this one is, I think around 2.4 GB. I've tried copying the file, and tarring it in place, and a number of other things,and I just can't seem to figure out how to resolve the problem. Is there a setting someplace that I can change to make it play nicely with large files? I would think that having a limit on the size of files would cause problems not only with files like this, but also with databases and such, so there must be some way to find the necessary information. Obligatory system info: [amon-re erins] uname -a FreeBSD amon-re 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 =20 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Currently running the default kernel... I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on my server last week, when i opened it up there... Thanks, ~Erin