gzip problem (Value too large to be stored in data type)

[Son of beach]

I have a Oracle dump file which is more than 2G in my AIX machine.
After I type the command "tar -cvf aaa.dmp.tar aaa.dmp", there is no error.
However, when I type the command "gzip aaa.dmp.tar", the following error
occurs:

aaa.dmp.tar: Value too large to be stored in data type

So how can I solve this problem?

[Olof Johansson]

Easiest way to work around that is to use stdin and stdout on gzip:

# gzip < aaa.dmp.tar > aaa.dmp.tar.gz

You will of course need to make sure that the resource limits are set
high enough as well.

Regards,

Olof

[Son of beach]

Actually, I really get the error and cannot gzip the file, so I can't just
ignore the error message.

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[Mark Taylor]

cat file | gzip > file.gz && rm file

should sort the error messages...(make sure your ulimits are big enough
for the user who runs this ect)

As a side point --> how big is your tar file. tar is only valid for
files up to 2GB. any bigger and you will get corruption of your
tarball (no errors either). use pax or i think gnutar has got around
the 2gb limit.

Rgds
Mark

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