Giant tar's
 

I've got a directory i want to tar, so i do the following:

tar -czvf exampledir.tar.gz exampledir

The problem is, that it creates a tar of 2.1Gb and then hangs. Anyone knows how i can create multiple(smaller) tar files???

Is it hanging because you ran out of disk space?:eek: I've created larger tar files... (not sure how you would create multiple tar files other than doing something like these directories are in this tar file and those are in another one)

Not necessarily running out of space, but you haven't enabled large file support in the kernel.. by default in most cases, you kernel can only support 2 GB max for one file... you'll need to recompile your kernel to get around this.

I know, but i want to hold my standard redhat kernel.
There must be another solution for this.

Nope, unless the file is less than 2GB's there isn't. Compiling a kernel might seem daunting, but its really not that big of a deal really...
But I don't know of any other way...