--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash -
+# libguestfs
+# Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+# Test tar_in call when we upload something which is larger than
+# available space.
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580246
+
+set -e
+export LANG=C
+
+rm -f test.img test.tar
+
+dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=2
+tar cf test.tar test.img
+
+output=$(
+../../fish/guestfish 2>&1 <<'EOF'
+add test.img
+run
+mkfs ext2 /dev/sda
+mount /dev/sda /
+-tar-in test.tar /
+EOF
+)
+
+rm -f test.img test.tar
+
+# Check for error message in the output.
+if [[ ! $output =~ libguestfs:.error:.tar_in ]]; then
+ echo "Missing error message from tar-in (expecting an error message)"
+ exit 1
+fi