From: John Allen (john.allen at domain oc2.com)
Date: Thu 17 Feb 2000 - 08:15:30 GMT
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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