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Re: [SLE] 2 Gb file limit and work around?
  • From: Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 02 Feb 2004 20:54:14 +0100
  • Message-id: <863c9tgsux.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

--
A.M.

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