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Tar: .file too large to archive. Use E function modifier

April 30th, 2018, posted in Solaris
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tar: .file too large to archive. Use E function modifier.

Using TAR for big files ( > 8GB)

In Unix environment, If you are trying to “tar” OS files that is bigger than 8 GB of size. Following error is observed.

Regular tar command:

tar -cvf test.dmp.tar test.dmp

Error:

tar: test.dmp too large to archive.  Use E function modifier.

Solution:

tar -cvEf test.dmp.tar test.dmp
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