From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 06:46:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B8B16A41C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3329543D1F for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:46:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 3783 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2005 16:46:19 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (202.59.110.3) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Jun 2005 16:46:19 +1000 Message-ID: <42BE4F33.6040101@meijome.net> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:46:11 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> <20050626052603.GB9894@dan.emsphone.com> <42BE442C.9090502@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <42BE442C.9090502@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:46:20 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >> In the last episode (Jun 26), Norberto Meijome said: >> >>> Hi there, >>> I had to install gzip from ports as gzip from base system doesn't >>> seem to support >2GB files. Now I find myself with a set of gzip >>> utils in /usr/bin/ (system) and one in /usr/local/ (ports). >> >> >> >> I have never had any problems with gzip and files over 2gb. Do you >> have an example? >> > > and yes, the error msg from the process was gzip's msg, cant handle > filesize > 2 GB. sorry, dont have the original msg at hand anymore. > B ok, found a copy of the log - sorry, no direct reference to 2GB... DUMP: 66.60% done, finished in 1:32 gzip: stdout: File too large DUMP: Broken pipe DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. the partition being dumped is /dev/ad0s1g 107G 11G 87G 12% /usr