[Sunhelp] tar file size limit

[Doug McLaren]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:05:55AM +0200, Mr Rene Occelli wrote:

| I've a problem when I want to tar a  big directory under Solaris 2.7
| Leila# tar cf - Fluent.Inc > /export0/Fluent.tar
| File Size Limit Exceeded (core dumped)
| 
| Leila# du -ks Fluent.Inc
| 717176	Fluent.Inc         <-----  711 Megs  Not a largefile  
| 
| Leila# du -ks /export0/Fluent.tar
| 614712	/export0/Fluent.tar
| 
| I thought that the problem of size was only for file > 2Gb
| ( It's what  man tar says ...  )
| 
| Is there a problem with tar ? Anu idea ?

Try running the command `ulimit -a' or `limit' (depending on your
shell) and see what the filesize limit is set to.  If it's 600 mbytes,
you know what the problem is.

614712 / 1024 is almost exactly 600 mbytes.  I doubt that's a
coincidence.

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