Re: [Dump-users] another trouble with dump

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

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Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 =E0 16:02 +0200, Vincenzo Versi a =E9crit :
> Hi all,
> I installed the 0.4b22 version of dump and I put the command:
> >nohup dump -0Mf dumpL0.etc -z2 /space &
[...]
>   DUMP: write error 2591430 blocks into volume 1: File too large=20

File too large means that your kernel does not support files bigger than
2 GB. If you look at the file you'll find out it is just a little
smaller than 2 GB.

The solution is to use -B to limit the output to files smaller than 2
GB, for example:
	dump -0 -M -B 2000000 -f dumpL0.etc -z2 /space

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>