From: Sorin S. <sor...@or...> - 2011-04-14 06:33:22
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky [mailto:bac...@ko...] >Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:33 PM >To: General list for user discussion, questions and support >Cc: sor...@or... >Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to restore an 8GB archive file? > > > That limit is long gone: > > > > root@frances:/tmp# uname -a > > Linux frances 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC > > 2011 i686 GNU/Linux > >I believe the OP was talking about 32bit Windows. Though even on WinXP >or Win2000 I don't believe that is a limitation (unless you use FAT32 >rather than NTFS). Perhaps the OP was talking about FAT32... No, it was actually linux. However it was my misunderstanding, as I thought it was a 32b kernel-problem, when in fact it's a file system limitation according to Google. The problem first came up on a 32b linux machine running ext3 file system. Moving the 8GB archive to a machine with ext4, solved the problem. OTOH, ext3 is said to have a max file size limit from about 16GB up to some 2TB, depending on block size. So why I would have a problem with an 8GB file is anybody's guess. -- /Sorin |