[NTLUG:Discuss] TAR and 4 gigabyte AVI file

[Lenrek Xunil]

Oops... I was saving the file to my FAT partition... forgot about that....
I'll save it to my reiserFS partition.  That should work, thanks.

On 1/6/07, . Daniel <xdesign at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is your hard drive formatted FAT32 by chance?  Don't do that.  Can't
> handle
> those larger files.  But if you must, try archiving using RAR.  It will
> stream the archiving process and break the files into segments of any size
> you select.  (1 or 2 GB chunks is a good typical size)
>
>
> >I'm trying to archive someone's docs from his hard drive to mine using
> "tar
> >cfvz file_archive.tar.gz mount_point/" using SuSe 9.
> >
> >Problem is, when it gets to an AVI file that is 3727288k, it errors out.
> I
> >tried copying the files instead, and it says the file is too large.  Too
> >many annoying things.  First of all, using the avi format.  Second,
> naming
> >the file "SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi" with the mixed case, the blanks, and the
> >apostrophe.  Grrrrrr.  Then having a 4 gig file.  USERS!!!!
> >
> >I also tried "tar cfvz --exclude-from="SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi" SUMMER '03
> Day
> >4.avi" to exclude that directory but my syntax is not quite right.  Any
> >suggestions?  Thanks in advance for your help.
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