Re: [SLE] 2 Gb file limit and work around?

From: Alexandr Malusek (Alexandr.Malusek_at_imv.liu.se)
Date: 02/02/04

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Date: 02 Feb 2004 20:54:14 +0100

    Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@norweb.se> writes:

    > I am trying to back up a 6 gig harddrive with "dd"
    > ...
    > dd: writing to '/mnt/image.dd': File to large
    > 4195234+0 records in
    > 4195234+0 records out
    >
    > Is there a easy way to get around the problem?

    Use the skip and count options of dd to save the partition in several
    files.

    > How do i fix the system for larger files?

    Which network FS do you use?

    > The source FS is NTFS
    > The targer FS is ReiserFS (on the network disk)

    Both can handle files larger than 2 GiB, see the Large File Support
    chapter in the Admin Guide. 

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