There are large 2-6GB files in the tar file, but not at the point where it stops. It never really gets close to that point. For what its worth I'm runing tar-1.14-8 on a CentOS 4.2 fully updated/patched system. === On Wed March 1 2006 1:11 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:31, CentOS-List at jamesplace.net wrote: > > It just stops like it's at the end of the tar ffile. No errors at all. > > Various versions of gnutar have 2 and 8 gig maximums on the file > sizes they can handle. Do you know if the file where it fails > is huge? Does anyone have a reference for which tar versions > have which limit?