I think the limit is 8GB, actually.
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Marc Peters <m...@mpeters.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:23:08AM +0000, Max Power wrote:
>> Hi guys.
>> OpenBSD never ceases to amaze me...!!
>>
>> Solved the problem about maximum compression with bzip2 by tar, there's
>> another...
>> while tar run [tar cvvf - directory | bzip2 -9 -v > directory.tbz2], at a
>> certain point, return:
>> tar: file is too long for ustar ....
>> The file that creates the problem is 30GB.
>>
>> What happen?
>> How Can I fix this problem...?
>> Thanks.
>
> Base tar is only capable to pack files <10GB. You can switch to
> archivers/gtar.
>
