From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi  Tue May 13 14:19:33 2008
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Subject: Re: [MiNT] ext2 8GB ??
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
To: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>
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Steps to reproduce....

Create an 8GB partition called drive X: in this setup below...

mke2fs X:
tar cvpf /X/test.tar <testdir> #I use /bin for testdir
cd /X
tar xvpf test.tar

During extraction the error message appears.

I don't have any problem with a 2GB partition.

Alan.