Tar error: Broken Pipe

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:37:40PM -0400, Alaric wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to back up a couple of my directerys but keep getting a
> broken pipe error without any further discrition on whats broken, it creates
> the file I want, and puts some of the dir into it, but ends with a broken
> pipe error and I'm worried that I'm somehow using the command wrong and not
> backing up everything I need to, has anyone ever seen this before or have
> any insight? thanks!

Are you creating your tar on a filesystem that has either run
out of space or has a filesize limit you just hit? Say, 2GB?

-dsr-