From: Anthony Gunia (aggunia@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2006 - 11:28:24 EDT
Sorry for the delay in this summary. Many thanks to all with their
solutions on this. Richard Skelton and LS identified the problem...I needed
to build a large file aware version of gzip. Thanks to LS for providing the
compiled version (64 bits mode with large file support) which worked
perfectly. Here's my original post:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to tar/gzip a large directory that is 4.5GB on Solaris 9 SPARC.
> I'm using the following command:
>
> # tar -cvf - <directory> | gzip > /var/archives/file.tar.gz
>
> The error I get is:
>
> gzip: stdout: Invalid argument
>
> I am writing the file to another mount point called /var/archives that
> has 20GB of free space. I've installed and tried using GNU tar and
> GNU gzip from the Sun freeware site, and get farther along with the
> file, but still get the same error. Could someone shed some light on what
is going on, and
> how to compress this directory? Thanks, and results will be posted.
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