Re: NetBSD tar and large files.

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:25:57 +0100
Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> IIRC there's a 4G filesize limit on fat32, you might be able to split
> it up though?
> 
Yes that's what I did.

> Infact, I've just noticed this:
> 
> (ian:~)$ ls -lh /usr3/*tar
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   87G Jun  4
> 23:06 /usr3/rootbackup_04Jun2010.tar (ian:~)$
> 
> Which was created with NetBSD tar.
> 

Yes you're right, I've started a backup to the second hard disk, tar
file has gone over 8GB, so looks like I was wrong.

I thought NetBSD used ustar format with 8GB limit:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html