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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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