From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: Re: 2GB max file size Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:35 +0200 Message-ID: <200503291733.35809.fluca1978@infinito.it> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1> Reply-To: fluca1978@infinito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20050329160147.049ed668@127.0.0.1> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:06 Carl's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Luca, > > tar will handle input files greater than 2GB. > > I use files greater than 2GB on a RedHat 8 system with > a generic 2.4.20 kernel and tar (version = tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25) > > I can also use dump/restore for backing up to tape. > Actually I'm trying with zip, that fails if the file becomes bigger than 2 GB. SInce I remember that, due to the i-node structure, unix cannot handle a file greater than 2GB, I was wondering the problem was of the filesystem and not of the program itself. However, before renouncing to use zip, is there something I can do on the filesystem to handle bigger files? Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@infinito.it