Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 22:31:12 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij <Carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: david+dated+1178481507.0b93b4@skytracker.ca Subject: Re: can't zip large files 2gb > Message-ID: <20070501203111.GB16118@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070501202118.GA5020@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070501195825.GA10269@skytracker.ca> <20070501202118.GA5020@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue 01 May 2007 16:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:58:26PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > I am attempting to zip large files that are 2GB - 3GB. > > > > uname -a; > > > > FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #7 > > > > I have tried gzip, bzip2 from the ports and rzip. > > OK, none of those are "zip" though :) They're completely different > algorithms. > > > All give no errors on zipping, but will not unzip, siting > > CRC errors. > > > > Is there a maximum file size for zipping? Is my system too old? > > Maybe a file or library that all zip programs depend on that is > > corrupt? > > Quite possible your system is too old, it works on modern versions of > FreeBSD at least with gzip and bzip2. > > Kris I can confirm that compressing large files works without problems on FreeBSD 6. A while ago I tested different archivers, and used gzip, bzip2, and 7-zip to compress and decompress some large files (3 to 4GB) Martin
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