[ILUG] Limits with file sizes??

[John Allen]

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
>

Try
tar --use=bzip2 -cvf /usr3/bkfiles.tar.bz2 your-files-here

>

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