From: roland <for...@gm...> - 2004-05-20 02:35:03
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you could temporary compress that image (compress, gzip....) to cut down size below 2G. for not-so-good-but-very-fast compression, i would recommend using lzop: http://www.lzop.org/ http://www.lzop.de unfortunately i cannot tell you, if the downloadable binary linux-versions are large-file (>2G) aware. i mainly use lzop on solaris and have compiled it myself with largefile support. regards roland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emiliano Castagnari" <ec...@fi...> To: <use...@li...> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:25 AM Subject: Re: [uml-user] Migrating uml image > El [ Thu 20, May 04 - 09:39 ] , Raymond Wong expreso: > > I encountered problem in migrating uml filesystem image from one system to > > another since the size of the image is more than 2G. I used scp and cp but > > both failed to handle files more than 2G. What would be the best way to > > migrate such image? > > Have you tried dd with ssh ? > > You could do something like this: > > dd if=<sourcefile> bs=<BYTES> count=<BLOCKS> | ssh user@server dd of=<destfile> bs=<BYTES> count=<BLOCKS> > > IMHO, this is a good work around, although, I haven't tried it with files as large > a 2Gigs, but it should work. > > Ah !! BTW, anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no need to use params bs and count, > dd will work just fine until it encounters EOF, right ? > > On the other hand, if this doesn't work as expected, you could use those to params > to break the file into pieces, and then concatenate it on the remote host. > > As an example: > > dd if=huge_file bs=1024 count=1M | ssh user@server dd of=huge_file_1 bs=1024 count=1M > dd if=huge_file bs=1024 count=1M seek=1M | ssh user@server dd of=huge_file_2 bs=1024 count=1M > > This would split up the file in to _not_so_huge_ files (still big enough }8-D), of 1Gig each. > > Hope this will help > > Cheers !! > -- > Emiliano Castagnari > > # Debian Sarge - GNU/Linux - Athos 2.6.6 # > # JID: pre...@ja... > # ICQ: 107462374 - Nick: mem > -------------------------------------------------- > - } [ Libera tu mente - Libera tu Codigo ] { - > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > Use...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user > |