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
> 
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