Re: [SLUG] 2gig filesize limits, and how to get arround them

From: Smitty (76543a@mpinet.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 20:01:54 EDT


You are going to have to split it into smaller pieces Norb and then cat them
back together.
Smitty

On Saturday 07 July 2001 13:39, you wrote:
> Alright, well, as you might remember, I had that mammoth 3gig file
> sitting on my hard drive, whcih I needed to move to another partition.
> Well, I used split to move it to another partition (thanks, Paul, for
> the tip on how to do it). Now my problem is that I can't reconstruct the
> file! I did a
>
> cat * > rescue.tgz
>
>
> where '*' means "all the fragments in this directory." Unfortunatelly,
> at 2 gigs, the system complains "File Too Large." Does anyone know how I
> can get large file support? I think it was mentioned before that I had
> to recompile libc or something like that (I've been a bit swamped with
> work this week and accidentally deleted a few of the messages.
>
>
> Thanks, again, for any help.
>
>
> Norb
>
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