Max file sizes

Don Harvie
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:18:02 -0000

Hi All,

I hoping someone has encountered the following limitation before and can
tell me where the limitation comes from:

I'm backing up a RH62 based linux box to a NTFS file system on a NT4
sp6a workstation using smbmount from the linux box. This has worked fine
up until recently.

I use tar to do a full backup of linux box.

The tar file is truncated at exactly 1 byte less than 2GB. (This also
occurs when I use gzip to compress the tar file as well). There appear
to be no error messages generated anywhere by tar, samba logs, syslog or
the NT event log.

My thoughts are that it seems like some kind of file system limitation
and I must admit that I suspect NTFS.

I'm using samba 2.2.2 configured as a PDC, (works fine).

At the moment I'm re-writing the backup script to tar each file system
separately but this is only a short term fix.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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