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Date:      Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:56:55 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        pier <pierguido.lambri@lugpiacenza.org>
Cc:        freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem ext2
Message-ID:  <4271DAB7.7040607@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <4271D753.1010003@lugpiacenza.org>
References:  <4271D753.1010003@lugpiacenza.org>

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pier wrote:

>I need ext2 because i need to exchange very big files (dvd iso images)
>with linux computers.
>But everytime i try to copy a big file i receive this message:
>
>cp: ./sarge-i386-1.iso: File too large
>  
>
FreeBSD might only be able to deal with files smaller than 2 GiB on ext2 
file systems. Use a program like lxsplit to cut the file into chunks 
first, e.g.

  lxsplit -s filename 1024M

and join it later with

  lxsplit -j filename.001

Björn



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