Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu0.cc.monash.edu.au!monu6!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!otto!t891368 From: t891368@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (Mark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to archive several files with tar? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 17:42:27 GMT References: <626E0BEE3F3F601CC4@lure.latrobe.edu.au> <16873@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: usenet@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Njuiz noveles nova newes) Organization: Faculty of Business, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 19 jik@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > Actually, the worst case is that the tar file will continue to grow as tar >writes into it, so that when tar opens that file to archive it, the file will >grow as tar is archiving it, which means that there will be more to archive, >etc., etc. until the disk fills up or the user exceeds his quota or the >maximum file size or whatever. >-- >Jonathan Kamens jik@CATS.UCSC.EDU *grin* I did that in my early days. Something like this: -rwx------ mark users blah blah blah 753273651 zzfiles.tar Fortunately I got bored and killed the job as I thought it had hung. We have quota's on that machine now :)