Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:41:58 -0500 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com> To: <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB Message-ID: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNAEHKECAB.dave@hawk-systems.com> In-Reply-To: <20021125102736.B42991-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net>
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>> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr >> partition. >> >> Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe >dump to split >> or something then reverse the process with restore later? >> >> Working with what will be approximately a 6GB L0 dump so over 3x the size >> limitation. >> >> examples or suggestions appreciated >> >> Dave > >Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! >;) > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5191390944 Nov 17 06:02 babelfish_data.gz >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35176571 Nov 25 04:06 babelfish_data_1.gz > >Any idea what I'm doing wrong (or right)? Using dump on 4.7-RELEASE. Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and selected port upgrades only... Assumption from responses being upgrading to a more recent stable version is required to eliminate the problem? Thanks Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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