From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 13:13:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEE516A4C0 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D2043FCB for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <200308262013080110081dvge>; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:13:08 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7QKD4N9041209; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:13:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h7QKD0rk041205; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:13:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: dave References: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Aug 2003 16:12:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <007801c36c05$815e8f00$0200a8c0@satellite> Message-ID: <44oeyc6uus.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file size limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:13:12 -0000 "dave" 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.