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I ran into this same thing a couple years back. What
would happen is <new_vol_root> specifies a particular
file or directory to pick out of the tar source, not
a destination to untar into. What you want instead is
something like:
tar -cf - <old_root> | ( cd <new_root>; tar -xf -)
Gordon
--- "E. Wiliam Horne" <bill at horne.net> wrote:
>
> In other words, if I do
>
> tar cf - <old_volume_root> | tar xf -
> <new_volume_root>, would that
> avoid the 2 GiB barrier?
>
> TIA.
>
> Bill Horne
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