Tar issue..?

jbrashear · 04-02-2004, 11:36 AM

I am trying to backup a 6 gig directory structure full of JPEGs using tar and it keeps failing at 2147483647 with the following message:

tar: /data/backups/albums_backup_040204.tar: Wrote only 2047 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I have tried tar -czvf and tar -cvf..

Any ideas?

Thank!

michaelk · 04-02-2004, 12:28 PM

Not a tar issue. What kind of PC i.e. motherboard , CPU? What distro, version, kernel are you using?

It looks like the max file size is 2GB.

aaa · 04-02-2004, 12:47 PM

What filesystem are you saving to?

jbrashear · 04-02-2004, 12:57 PM

aaa,

ext2. My friend just mentioned that he had issues with a particular type of filesystem, but couldn't remember...?

jbrashear · 04-02-2004, 01:00 PM

I am using Debian (woody).. I am sorry to say that I don't even know the kernel version, but I do recall someone mentioning that the 2.2 kernel had an issue of only allowing files to reach 2 GB..?

aaa · 04-02-2004, 01:11 PM

Run 'uname -r' to see kernel version.

jbrashear · 04-02-2004, 01:15 PM

Thanks!

2.2.20-idepci

well, I'm wondering if I answered my own question.. could it be a filesize limitation imposed by the 2.2 kernel?

aaa · 04-02-2004, 01:19 PM

Maybe, not sure. The Debian installs the 2.2 by default, you need to tell it explicitly to install 2.4 .