[SunHELP] RE: SunHELP Solaris 2.6 limitations?

[Pissey, Vinod]

Hi

Why don't you compress this tar file.That should solve the problem.

Thanks
Regards
Vinod Kumar Pissey
Unix Is User-Friendly.It's just selective about who its friends Are.

Message: 8
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:37:27 -0400
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
From: Edward Chase <echase at postoffice.providence.edu>
Subject: [SunHELP] Solaris 2.6 limitations?
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org

I've got an old (Intel) Solaris 2.6 server.

I'm trying to tar up some stuff to a file.  It keeps crapping out on me
in=20
the same place.

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I'm thinking that the machine can't create a file greater than 2GB.
Might=20
this be true?

# ls -l
total 3944210
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other    2018426880 Oct  2 15:21 homer.tar
drwxr-xr-x  23 root     other        512 Sep 11  2000 local
drwx------   2 root     root        8192 Aug 31  2000 lost+found
# uname -a
SunOS homer 5.6 Generic_105182-20 i86pc i386 i86pc

The tape drive in this machine died and I figured I could tar and
transfer=20
since I have an area with room to tar.