On 12/16/2014 10:16 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
Anyone know why a tar archive would fail when using a thumb drive?
I have a 250gig thumb drive that I'm trying to back up my home directory to and I get this error
/home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1882.CR2 /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1937.CR2 /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/uraguay_1969_new.jpg /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1830.JPG tar: /home/ruben/tape/workstation_12_15_2014.tar: Wrote only 4095 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
While 250G is impressive for a thumb drive, there are a couple of things I'd check. 1. Is it full? I think the reason for that is obvious 2. What file system is it using? Perhaps there is a limitation in file size with the FS, or the parameters used to create the FS. I realise that larger thumb drives and SD cards are supposed to use exFAT which is supposed to support large files, but if I'm using a thumb drive for Linux backup I usually mkfs it to a linux file system. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org