[ILUG] Limits with file sizes??

[Ross Lynch]

presume you have 2.3gigs free wherever you're trying to make the
tarball?

Brian Cullen wrote:
> 
> I am tar`ing up a load of files (2.6GIGs) and am getting the following
> message:
> 
> tar: Cannot write to /usr3/bkfiles.tar: File too large
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> The tar was just running through a file which is 1.1GIG. Forgive me
> ignorance on this one folks, I don`t usually tar up 2.6 gigs. Can anyone
> tell me if there is a limit or is there something I am doing wrong here?
> 
> rgds,
> 
> /Brian
> 
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