From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 6 23:28:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CF110657D1 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3DE8FC12 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 23:28:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1504191yxm.13 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:28:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JVqYi3vd/7BfqtJwXXYuG5y76YGGsCnKfD9BQRqglZc=; b=kfTHsRkjq4XacVDp0S/sVlLj2Fd+gWTlncFnMF1/jlnQyCB7LeEKEofiy8HvjaTygb SE56n5Nq2KsKKml1tF0tYOn9QZNfSd6Tm5uTPYpETw6WRDInGIomJj/2w6o1wCI5YQ9M 871xmwDWMjMX7L5JCiNs4c9kOlXxbXrmiwaHE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EWutOFwtS8JnNUcSecmFFQWG8pw7SY+Y9fqeXhGryhSnWPDx+hv0wESPn0aClLVnDH Cqc9hcw+ojZG2LQWP+/4fbNEy3x7LetqWT9XIiOYJlUzvtEBAVQMBFf5QfwJQ6mIaXVv y6WuqTBDJUmzOCveplLTbRFxxHXp9H96RE93w= Received: by 10.90.98.13 with SMTP id v13mr3502642agb.66.1239060526064; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.16.29.53? (host-53.216-16-29.iw.net [216.16.29.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm7085387agb.59.2009.04.06.16.28.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49DA9032.7040601@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:28:50 -0500 From: Adam Vandemore User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How big can a tar file get? 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, 06 Apr 2009 23:28:47 -0000 John Almberg wrote: > Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency > backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory. > > My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is > already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching this > file grow, I'm wondering if there is some file size limit that is > going to make this long backup abort. > > Naturally, that will happen when the backup is almost complete :-) > > -- John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System Max file size 2^73 bytes (8 ZiB ) -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610