Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:32:06 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Subject: Re: file size limit Message-ID: <20030826203206.GA28478@goku.kasby> In-Reply-To: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite>
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--KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:08:55PM -0400, dave wrote: > Hello, > Wondering if ffs has a file size limit. I've got a rather large tar f= ile > that i've got on the slave drive, the ext2 drive that caused me so much > grief. I've copied it over to a tmp area and tried to extract it. gzip gi= ves > me an unexpected end of file error. When i use tar's -zt option to test it > it fails on an .avi file. Said avi file has spaces in it's file name and = is > on the order of approx 4.5 g in size. Ideally i'd like to extract all the > information in this tar file, but failing that i'd like to extract > everything around the avi that is not corrupted so i won't loose everythi= ng. > Thanks. > Dave. [snip] This is a FAQ. Go to www.freebsd.org and read FAQ 3.29 "What are the limits for ffs filesystems?". Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/S8PFfsM3XxZOsXsRAk1MAJ9yQEJLtjmOsFCH1dkLMerZRsc/SQCgtMTO QXFBnFjSqqXzdxj+4ELuO+8= =agt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy--
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