On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:48:43PM -0800, Matthew A. Dunford wrote: > cpio sometimes corrupts data copying files over 2GB. It seems to pad them > with > null bytes. It prints an error, though it exits with success. Here is the > report I got from a user: > > $ cpio --sparse -pdmv $a </tmp/a
The default format does not support files >2GB. Other formats vary. Your user may want to investigate using -Hcrc or a different header. -Hnew is limited to 4294967295 bytes -Hodc is limited to 8589934591 bytes I believe -Htar and -Hustar are also limited to <8GB. I could have sworn that this was in the documentation, but I cannot find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
