[SunHELP] Solaris 2.6 limitations?

[Edward Chase]

I re-ran my script again without the verbose option on tar...

# ./backup2disk.sh
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./etc/.syslog_door: Unknown file type; file ignored
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./etc/.name_service_door: Unknown file type; file ignored
/usr/local/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Well now I feel foolish, the tar was finishing.  The errors it's talking 
about are not keeping the tar from finishing.  It's been working all 
along.  It works with both the Sun supplied /usr/bin/tar and the apparently 
added GNU tar in /usr/local/bin/tar

Sorry to bother the list with my oversight.




At 12:48 PM 10/3/2001 -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
>Filesystem is mounted with the largefiles option...
>
>/disk2 on /dev/dsk/c1t6d0s0 setuid/read/write/largefiles on Fri Sep 21 
>14:52:57 2001
>
>And there room (someone else's thought)
>
>/dev/dsk/c1t6d0s0    8780856 3991543 4701505    46%    /disk2
>
>
>
>At 09:02 AM 10/3/2001 +0200, Frank-Christian Kruegel wrote:
>
>>Solaris for Sparc does not have the 2GB limitation. I don't know about 
>>the Intel
>>version. Just do a mount
>>
>>bash-2.02# mount
>>/ on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 
>>07:17:18 2001
>>/usr on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18
>>2001
>>/proc on /proc read/write/setuid on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18 2001
>>/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18 2001
>>/var on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18
>>2001
>>/usr/local/news/spool on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3 setuid/read/write/largefiles 
>>on Thu
>>Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
>>/backup on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4 setuid/read/write/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 
>>07:17:19
>>  2001
>>/tmp on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
>>/var/run on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
>>/var/spool/locks on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
>>bash-2.02#
>>
>>You see that all partitions are mounted with the largefile option. If this
>>option is present you can create large files, if not you can't.
>>
>>The applications also have to be compiled with the LARGE_FILES #define. The
>>system supplied tools should have been compiled accordingly.
>>
>>On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:37:27 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> >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
>> >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
>> >this be true?

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