From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 20:39:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB3237B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA23369; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:37:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:37:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Rick Knebel Subject: Re: file size Message-ID: <20001002223752.A23329@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001002092728.A18872@dan.emsphone.com> <200010030130.VAA08131@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <200010030130.VAA08131@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from "Francisco Reyes" on Mon Oct 2 21:36:28 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 02), Francisco Reyes said: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:27:28 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > >If you had a crash, it wasn't due to that. You might get a "invalid > >compressed data--length mismatch" error when uncompressing a file over > >2gb, because the internal gzip headers only store a 32-bit filesize for > >the uncompressed file, but FreeBSD itself doesn't care. > > So what can one use to create compressed files over 2GB? Gzip. Just ignore that partcular error if you see it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message