Re: tar limitations?

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

Im surprised noone has mentioned file system file size limitation here.
ext2 has a limit of 2GB. Reiserfs has a work around that problem and the
limit is raised higher (I cant remeber what, but similar to that of fat32)
than we will reach any time soon.

But a few weeks ago, I couldnt copy a 3GB file from a fat32 partition to
reiserfs, but it worked when I did a mkreiserfs on a new drive and tried
the same thing. May have been newer reiserfsprogs, but didnt get a chance
to find out.

asz

Hector Akamine wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Are there any limits in the size of files tar can handle? Does it depend
> on the amount of memory or any other parameter? I'm trying to do
>
> tar -zcvf tarfile.tgz . > tarlog.txt
>
> but when the size of the file becomes about 2GB, tar exits with an error
> message ("file too large" or something similar, the message was in
> japanese) (I have enough disk space for the file). It is strange since I
> am almost sure I have been able to create files larger than 2GB before.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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