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I have 2 problems when tarring up directories......the tar quits at
2,147,483,647 every time.  Does anyone know why this is and how to keep
it from happening?

Also.....I am having trouble preserving permissions and ownership  --  I
am using tar cvdP.  Is there something I am doing wrong.....root ends up
owning everything in the tar!

Thanks!

You're probably running into the 2GB filesize limitation.  To keep it from
happening make sure you're using a kernel and fs that can handle files >2GB.

Quote:> Also.....I am having trouble preserving permissions and ownership  --  I
> am using tar cvdP.  Is there something I am doing wrong.....root ends up
> owning everything in the tar!

First off, you might want to use tar -czPf.  Right now you're trying to
both create the tarball (c) and diff it against the filesystem (d).  As  
way of getting that little bit more, you can gzip the tarball as it's being
created (z) and of course (f) marks the file.  Now when you extract you'll
want to use tar -xzpf, with the (x) being the extract option.

Jeff