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Re: [opensuse] Maximum tar file size
  • From: Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:53:44 +0100
  • Message-id: <8664a968fb.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Janus <lister@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> ... But is there a max size limit for tar files?

Yes. The maximum size of a tar file is the same as the maximum size
of a file in the file system. These sizes are listed in the Reference
documentation, section "Large File Support in Linux".

> Can I trust tar and make one big tar file, e.g. 25 GB of my entire
> home directory?

Yes. There shouldn't be any problem with files up to 2 TB, see the
documentation.

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