On 4/20/06, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:37, Nadeem M. Khan wrote: > > > Googling for the exact error didn't help apart from mentioning some > > 2GB file size limit for ext3 (??) > > Is that limit imposed by the file system or CPIO? If you are implying > that the FS is imposing the limit then you're mistaken: > > http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html > > The limit is 4TB and your file is just 5.1GB.
Could you simulate this on your system? I imagine you'd get the same error while extracting. Just make a cpio archive of /usr thats around 5 gigs. I'm going to try it on 64 bit box tomorrow. Lets see. Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
