Tar error: Broken Pipe

[Alaric at angeldustrial.com (Alaric)]

Well I checked on free disk space and got

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              55G  6.8G   45G  14% /
/dev/hda1              99M  9.9M   84M  11% /boot
none                  189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm

so I think I'm ok there, and I didn't ever set up any quota or anything on
disk space so I don't *think* that that's an issue either... I ran
repquota -a and it didn't come back with anything...

-Alaric


-----Original Message-----
From: dsr at tao.merseine.nu [mailto:dsr at tao.merseine.nu]
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 8:57 PM
To: Alaric
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Tar error: Broken Pipe


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-