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Re: [opensuse] Maximum tar file size
  • From: Janus <lister@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:47:47 +0100
  • Message-id: <200702102247.47937.lister@xxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:53, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

> 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".

Thanks. I use ext3 as my file system, but I am not sure about the block size
c.f.:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/

However, a 25 GB tar should be no problem.

Janus

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