From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 13:32:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 ED55916A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-2.tiscali.it (mail-2.tiscali.it [195.130.225.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D96743FE0 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcasadei@inwind.it) Received: from goku.kasby (217.133.209.235) by mail-2.tiscali.it (6.7.019) id 3F3356D400763E10 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:32:25 +0200 Received: (qmail 30480 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 2003 20:32:06 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:32:06 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030826203206.GA28478@goku.kasby> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, dave References: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KsGdsel6WgEHnImy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 cc: dave Subject: Re: file size limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:32:28 -0000 --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--