[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Bug-tar] tar fails for large files( size > 2 GB )
|
From: |
Eric Blake |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] tar fails for large files( size > 2 GB ) |
|
Date: |
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:14:32 -0600 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
According to Amarnath Sharma on 4/9/2007 1:55 AM:
> I am using tar 1.11.2
> For files size > 2 GB it fails to tar the file and abort after some
> time.
>
> When I used 1.13 it works for large file but the command
> tar -cvf - file-name throws error say
> " -: " invalid option. It looks that writing to standard Input has
> been removed.
Consider upgrading. Both of those versions are quite old, and a number of
bugs have been fixed in the meantime. The latest version of tar is 1.16.1.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFGGi4o84KuGfSFAYARAmIoAKCBG0OpbgRhhD1WS2pxHbaxr2q6bgCeIdcC
JsxgXOJxHBpKVzR54NHFbtc=
=1BQh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----