Re: How do I 'tar' a huge file?

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> This actually worked in that I was able to store the whole file into 
> seperate archives.  But, when I tried to untar, it failed on the first 
> file, saying it encountered an unexpected EOF.
>
> Am I missing something here? or can this simply not be done?
>
> -Roberto Sanchez

Did you pass the same -L <number> option to tar for the untar as you did 
for the tar?