On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Jeffrey Wong wrote:
..
> Is this using 'dd' ? I once tried to clone a 4GB HD(IDE), but it stops at
> 2GB.
>
> How did you make 'dd' exceed 2GB? what version of 'dd' are you using?
>
> I also tried to write my own 'dd' like program but it also stopped at 2GB,
> If I remember it right it is because that the Linux file system can only
> support upto 2GB per file. Has this limitation been removed?
'dd' doesnt copy files that way. it's just a blockwise copy. there is no
intermediate file. but you are right, there might be 32bit issues in
lseek() and friends. maybe new dd would have lseek64() and friends.
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