Hi, AFAIK kernel 2.4 exceeds the limit of 2GB files. Try that.
Greetz, Sebastiaan On 13 Apr 2001, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I've been using a script to tar and gzip nightly backups of user > directories in /home to a second hard drive. The other day one > of the users (actually it was me :) hit the size limit so that > the resulting tar'ed gzip'ed file exceeds the 2^31-1 byte file > size limit. > > Can anyone suggest a way to anticipate that and split the archive > to avoid the file size limit. > > Mike > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >