Tar Problem w/ 5+ Gig {Scanned}

Steve Kozakoff kozaksj at shands.ufl.edu
Thu Sep 30 11:27:22 UTC 2004


> I have a tar.gz file which is about 5 GB compressed size 
> which I have been having lots of problem trying to move from a
redhat
linux box 
> over to my windows xp system.

>Isn't there a file size limitation with some kernels?  I think I've
run into
>this before and had to update my kernel, not positive though.  Just
thought
>I'd throw this out there because I will soon have to tar up some
really big
>files too...

The FAT32 filesystem has a 4Gb file size limit. If you are using XP,
you should be using NTFS anyway :o)

-Steve




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