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Re: tar/zip/bzip2



On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:32 +0200, steef wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> what is the maximum-size of a file (if there is a maximum) to put in some 
> archive?
> 
> [i mean tar, tar.gz and the like]

Depends on your versions of the kernel, glibc & tar.

Modern versions of all 3 have LFS (Large File Support), which uses
64 bit file offsets.

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