topic Re: tar File size limit exceeded in Operating System - Linux

tar File size limit exceeded

himacs — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:02:34 GMT

Hi Admins,

I was backing up a dir using tar.But tar will terminate after backing up 101M data saying "File size limit exceeded"

[root@uaedxbpdcrmdsp03 reuters]# uname -a
uname -a
Linux uaedxbpdcrmdsp03 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@uaedxbpdcrmdsp03 reuters]#

Please suggest on this.

Regards
Pavan

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:48:07 GMT

How large is the file it was backing up when it terminated?

Was there any other information with the error? A file name perhaps? What 'tar' syntax were you using?

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

Steven Schweda — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:43:22 GMT

> [...] using tar.

Not a very detailed description of anything.
As usual, showing an actual command can be
more helpful than a vague description.

> [...] tar will terminate after backing up
> 101M data saying "File size limit exceeded"

"tar" is unlikely to have a file size limit
anywhere near 100MB, so I'd guess that you
are hitting a limit imposed elsewhere.

ulimit -a

With no useful information about what you're
doing, it's hard to know what might help, but
if you're storing the "tar" archive on a
disk, then compression (gzip, bzip2, ...)
might help.

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

himacs — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:09:22 GMT

Hi ,

Thanks for your response.

Issue has been solved.Filesize limit was 100MB.I changed to 2 GB.

Regards
Pavan

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

Steven Schweda — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:30:25 GMT

> [...] Filesize limit was 100MB. [...]

That was a "ulimit" limit?

> As usual, showing an actual command can be
> more helpful than a vague description.

Still true.

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

himacs — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:31:52 GMT

Yes Steven,That was ulimit.

The command i had fired was
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Regards
himacs

Re: tar File size limit exceeded

Steven Schweda — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:37:45 GMT

> The command i had fired was
> [...]

I suppose that it would be a waste of time to
note that "ulimit" is also a command which
you used, with some particular option, I'd
guess.