Comment 3 for bug 72756

This happened to me on a system running Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) -- haven't tried it yet under 7.04. I am creating the tar file on an external ieee1394 ("firewire") drive with the manufacturer's FAT32 formatting.

Under Edgy, Archive Manager put up a dialog saying an error occurred while writing the archive. Upon clicking the "Command Line Output" button, the message said "File size limit exceeded (core dumped)."

I won't bother attaching the crash report, but I will confirm that I just looked at the archive file I was trying to create, and Nautilus reports that the file is "4.0 GB (4294967295 bytes)"

I see nothing else unusual about the file.

Because Cylou68 said he also had the crash when attempting to cp the file, it seems possible this is a bug in the filesystem handling for FAT32. I'll try to confirm it and report back here.