Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball

[Nikolas Britton]

On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <tuxgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running
> Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd.  I'm
> now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over
> some sort of filesystem limit or something.  None of the commands that
> I have tried seem to like the file.  Each of them gives the same

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> I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on
> my server last week, when i opened it up there...

Might want try a different implementation of tar then....
cd /usr/ports/archivers; make search name="tar"| more