Date: 26 Aug 2003 16:12:59 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file size limit Message-ID: <44oeyc6uus.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite>
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"dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes: > Wondering if ffs has a file size limit. classic UFS on FreeBSD is limited to 4 terabytes but the filesystem itself is limited to a terabyte. [though it can be configured for more]. UFS2 handles larger filesystems. > I've got a rather large tar file > 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 gives > 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 everything. The problem is the compression; I don't think you can recover the data stream after that.
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