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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory tar 2GB limit Post 302098132 by Perderabo on Thursday 30th of November 2006 08:09:41 PM
Old 11-30-2006
tar has a 2GB limit for an individual file, but the total size of the archive can be larger. This limit arises from the standard tar format. A nonstandard tar format can help and I see a -E option on my Solaris man page. I would give pax a try. pax is standard and, in theory, pax can handle a file of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. (But I have never tried that. Smilie )
 

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dxarchiver(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     dxarchiver(8)

NAME
dxarchiver - Archives and restores files to and from disk and tape devices SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/X11/dxarchiver OPTIONS
The Archiver application accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options, which are documented in the OPTIONS section in the X(1X) reference page. DESCRIPTION
Use the Archiver application, dxarchiver, to: Copy and store multiple files to a single, named archive file or output device such as a tape or floppy disk Uncompress incoming archive files and compress newly created files Retrieve stored files from an archive file or device such as a tape or floppy disk Invoke the Archiver application from the CDE Application Manager from the following categories: Application Group: System_Admin System Admin Subgroup: Daily Admin FILES
Defaults that are shared by the GUI and CLI The Archiver application The Archiver help volume Directory containing Archiver application icons Application defaults file that sets the default values for the X resources Archiver message catalog Archiver online help location IDs for on-item help i18n_motif_shared_text.cat Message catalog containing application-independent messages i18n_motif_shared_text_LocIds.cat Message catalog containing application-independent location IDs for on-item help SEE ALSO
Commands: cpio(1), pax(1), tar(1), X(1X) Files: cpio(4), tar(4) System Administration dxarchiver(8)
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