From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 10:42: 2 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 9E39537B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E64C243ED4 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: (qmail 7004 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2002 18:41:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.157.103.51) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 25 Nov 2002 18:41:59 -0000 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" To: , "Dan Nelson" Cc: Subject: RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:41:58 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20021125102736.B42991-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 >> 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