I thought the 2G file limit wasn't fixed until the 2.4 series of
kernels. Is this wrong?
MArk
On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 14:59, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Mark Kilmartin wrote:
>> >What I want to do is use tar to do some backups.
> >Since I'm using a 2.2 kernel I have the 2G file limit.
> >
> No you don't. Just get a nice late kernel/glibc/utils
>> Alternatively you could perhaps pipe tar output to split.
>> Padraig.
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