From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 5:41:31 2002 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 C568137B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F30C543EB2 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: (qmail 64441 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2002 13:41:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.157.103.51) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 26 Nov 2002 13:41:26 -0000 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: , "Dan Nelson" , Subject: RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:41:24 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20021126003604.GA88412@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr >>>> partition. >>>> >>> Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! >>> >> Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and >> selected port upgrades only... > >I didn't think there was any change in behaviour during this time. > >> Assumption from responses being upgrading to a more recent stable >> version is required to eliminate the problem? > >I think it would be better if you showed more detail about what you've >done and what happened. Of course, if you want to upgrade to 4.7 >anyway, that might be instructive, but don't expect it to fix your >problems. backed up then deleted the entire backup mount, redid a fresh L0 dump and it worked just fine. Not sure what the problem was, or why it would choose to halt almost exactly around the 2GB mark... a quick search in google brough some 2GB limit conversation so I figured Id better run it by the list. Appreciate the comments. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message