"dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wondering if ffs has a file size limit.
classic UFS on FreeBSD is limited to 4 terabytes but the filesystem itself is limited to a terabyte. [though it can be configured for more]. UFS2 handles larger filesystems. > I've got a rather large tar file > that i've got on the slave drive, the ext2 drive that caused me so much > grief. I've copied it over to a tmp area and tried to extract it. gzip gives > me an unexpected end of file error. When i use tar's -zt option to test it > it fails on an .avi file. Said avi file has spaces in it's file name and is > on the order of approx 4.5 g in size. Ideally i'd like to extract all the > information in this tar file, but failing that i'd like to extract > everything around the avi that is not corrupted so i won't loose everything. The problem is the compression; I don't think you can recover the data stream after that. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"