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segmenting tar archives
Post 24665 by Kelam_Magnus on Tuesday 16th of July 2002 11:09:56 AM
07-16-2002
I am guessing that you have a 2GB file size restriction. Do you have a feature called Largefiles? I do on HPUX. Is it a possible to break out the data into smaller chunks?
I am not sure that tar has a feature like that.
However, do a search on this forum for other tar posts.
I am not sure that tar has a feature like that.
However, do a search on this forum for other tar posts.
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tar.h
tar.h(3HEAD) Headers tar.h(3HEAD) NAME
tar.h, tar - extended tar definitions SYNOPSIS
#include <tar.h> DESCRIPTION
The <tar.h> header defines header block definitions as follows. Name Description Value TMAGIC "ustar" ustar plus null byte TMAGLEN 6 length of the above TVERSION "00" 00 without a null byte TVERSLEN 2 length of the above Typeflag field definitions: Name Description Value REGTYPE '0' regular file AREGTYPE ' ' regular file LNKTYPE '1' link SYMTYPE '2' symbolic link CHRTYPE '3' character special BLKTYPE '4' block special DIRTYPE '5' directory FIFOTYPE '6' FIFO special CONTTYPE '7' reserved Mode field bit definitions (octal): Name Description Value TSUID 04000 set UID on execution TSGID 02000 set GID on execution TSVTX 01000 on directories, restricted deletion flag TUREAD 00400 read by owner TUWRITE 00200 write by owner special TUEXEC 00100 execute/search by owner TGREAD 00040 read by group TGWRITE 00020 write by group TGEXEC 00010 execute/search by group TOREAD 00004 read by other TOWRITE 00002 write by other TOEXEC 00001 execute/search by other ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 tar.h(3HEAD)