Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:54:29 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How big can a tar file get? Message-ID: <DBED1737-9FEB-4543-BD8E-3B937AC66825@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <49DA9032.7040601@gmail.com> References: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com> <49DA9032.7040601@gmail.com>
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On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: > 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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>) That should just about do it...
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