Hi All,

I have a file in DLT tape from client and it has been tarred. When I want to untar it, it is complaining that exceeding the file size limit in unix/linux which is 2 GB. The file is around 23 GB.

Do you know how can I untar a 23 GB file to linux or unix system?

thank you for your time.

With kind regards,
Hardian Suprapto
System Engineer

hi hardian_97

You can check whats the max file size limit by command 'ulimit -f'

And You can change the max file size limit to unlimited by

#ulimit -f unlimited


enjoy

Hi debulu,

I've tried your way but no luck. Apparently ulimit command is not exist in my red hat.

Do you have any other suggestion? or maybe some programs to untar this file?

Thank you for your time.

With kind regards,
Hardian Suprapto

Hi
you can try to write a c- program which will increase ur file size limits.

#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main ()
{
struct rlimit rl;
int pid=fork();
if(pid==0){
/* Obtain the current limits. */
getrlimit (RLIMIT_FSIZE, &rl);
/* Set file limit in bytes */
rl.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
setrlimit (RLIMIT_FSIZE, &rl);
***do some exec to extract from the tar here***
}
else
exit (0);
}

You must be super user to run this code.(gcc compiler i wish u have it)

But may be this modifications of resources are only applicable to the process who is doing it. So you can fork a child and exec the tar command. see what happens...
Refer man pages for setrlimit and getrlimit
hope it works