Hello Gustin, I am running libranet 3.0 Debian distribution and my file system is reiserfs. If ark can only handle FAT that would explain the problem, but would not give an obvious solution.
I hope this information helps. Regards, Michael Walters ___________________________________________________________________________________ Gustin Johnson wrote: > <flame bait>Perhaps this is a Gentoo "enhancement"?</flame bait> > > What distro was Michael running again? I have been using VMs under > Debian and K/Ubuntu for years (VMWare and more recently qemu), with file > sizes well in excess of 2GB. This seems like a weird limitation to have > intentionally, and is a nice step back to windows NT and 9x. > > I guess I would be interested to see if tar works. > > > runnning ulimit for me returns "unlimited", though there is no man entry > and the command line options are less than intuitive. I guess there is > some google digging in my future :) > > I just had a peek at k3b, and when I create a new data dvd project, I > see the file system in a window near the top. Right clicking in here > brings up a menu, when I select "view" from this menu, there is an > option for hidden files. Dragging the whole home directory into my new > k3b project in the bottom window, automatically triggered a prompt > asking if I wanted to include the hidden files. > > Hope this helps. > > Shawn wrote: > > >Less than a year ago, I ran into this type of problem - trying to > generate a > >file greater than 2 GB, and getting an error. To fix the problem I > had to > >change the limits of my system - I think the command was "ulimit" > with some > >parameters (though this is totally from memory, so I could be wrong..) > > >Maybe this will help? Or maybe the compression routine Michael is > using has a > >native size limit? Maybe just try tar? > > >Shawn > > >On Sunday 13 November 2005 21:37, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > >>Mike Fitton wrote: > >> > >>>Hi Michael, > >>> > >>>I wonder if their is a limit to the size that one can make a compressed > >>>file? Like I say, I'm no expert here and I'm not sure what the problem > >>>is. Maybe there are other people on this list with some ideas? > >> > >>Older file systems have a two Gig file size limitation, but there are no > >>recent, mainstream distros that use these by default. > >> > >>In practice, only the FAT file systems are still in use, and it is not > >>likely that this is being used as the default file system. > >> > >> > >>>~mike > >>> > >>>On Sunday 13 November 2005 7:36 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > >>> > >>>>I tried selecting compress on the home directory called michael and > >>>>everything seemed to be working until I got the error message, "Unable > >>>>to compress" after a few seconds. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>----- > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
