High, On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Angel MAN wrote:
> It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem > with tar > i want to save some data from a server. > So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a > storage band. > But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i > can't save all my data. > The server can coutain up to 80 Go of data so what can i do > ?? Is this not the filesizelimit of ext2fs? Upgrade to 2.4 (>2.4.12), I have been told. But, if you do this on the server side on which you have not root access to, try to split the data in several pieces (tar is a tape archiver, it should be able to split the data, I guess). Greetz, Sebastiaan