tar failure

[Ray Stell]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:40:44PM -0400, Richard Riley wrote:
> OK. I have finally found an error message I understand, but still don't
> understand why or how to fix.
> 
> When I ran the tar command manually (as root) insuring an output file
> size larger than 2GB, I actually got an error message of "File size
> limit exceeded".

use gtar
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/