Norb wrote:
>
> Paul Braman wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Norbert Omar Cartagena wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, I'm still dealing with that really big file (3giger!). Now, how
> > > would I do something like split
> > >
> > > split filename.tgz
> > >
> > >
> > > and pass off the split pieces off to another directory (say
> > > /home/weeeee)? Something like this, maybe?
> > >
> > > split file.tgz | cd /home/weeeee
> > > (split send the files to /home/weee instead of ./ )
> >
> > That's easy.
> >
> > cd /path/to/destination
> > split /path/to/origination/filename.tgz
> >
> > I just wonder how you *made* a file this big if none of the tools you are
> > using to unpack it will handle it. What tool allowed you to create such a
> > big file that you can't use it?
>
> tar cvzf rescue.tgz /directory/one /directory/two
>
> .... and it made it. Might it have to do somwthing with the fact that
> the file now rests in an ext2 partitio and before it rested on a
> ReiserFS partition? I mean, I tried ftp'ing into the machine (no jokes,
> please) and the file wouldnot even SHOW UP with ncftp. I would try "get
> *" and it would just complain that the OS said "NO! You can't have it!"
>
> I'm starting to think that just MAYBE all this info is lost. Nothincg
> critical, per se, but... well, it certainly teaches me a lesson about
> making backups.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I'm trying it out now.
>
> N o r b
>
Please excuse my fingers - they apparently the got lazy and missed a few
words. Make that alot of words...
Norb
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