[NTLUG:Discuss] TAR and 4 gigabyte AVI file

[. Daniel]

Careful!  I hear Reiser is dangerous too... keep your wife out of the room 
at the very least.


>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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