From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 10:29:37 2002 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 6083237B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CD143E88 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAPITZAG043197; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:35 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021125102736.B42991-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > 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. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message