How big can a tar file get?

Adam Vandemore amvandemore at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 16:28:47 PDT 2009


John Almberg wrote:
> Because of a big problem I had this weekend, I need to do an emergency 
> backup. I'm basically just creating a tar file of my /home directory.
>
> My question: how big can a file get on FreeBSD? This tar.gz file is 
> already 5G. Hard drive space is no problem, but as I'm watching this 
> file grow, I'm wondering if there is some file size limit that is 
> going to make this long backup abort.
>
> Naturally, that will happen when the backup is almost complete :-)
>
> -- John
>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System

Max file size 2^73 bytes
(8 ZiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte>)


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Adam Vandemore
Systems Administrator
IMED Mobility
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