>>>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:31:24 +0100,
      Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> said:

>> I'm not so sure about that

> Hmm, ok, you are right. I could have saved a bit of efford if I had 
> converted the disk to FFS first. Of course, both pax and tar cannot 
> create large files on a FAT32 filesystem. :(

It's not a problem of pax or tar.
The FAT32 filesystem itself doesn't support files larger than 4GB,
regardless of the OS.
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soda