Re: tar file size limitations

To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: tar file size limitations
From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:30:49 -0300
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Troy Campano wrote:

How big can a TAR file get?
I have over 6GB of data I want to back up remotely and want to tar/gzip
it up first. Can tar handle this?

I'm running FC2 Intel P4.


thank you!

~ Troy Campano ~

As far as I know, tar files can be as big as the filesystem can handle.... Maybe you can do a test , just to be 100% certain...

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Pedro Macedo

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