Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-18 Thread Tim Robbins
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:04:06PM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar

Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Stefan Krantz
Hi! I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar Is there any possible way to extract the file? I'm running 5.2-RELEASE on i386.

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: Hi! I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar Is there any

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Stefan Krantz
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: Hi! I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: Hi! I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Tim Robbins
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:21:21AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: 5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: Hi! I would like to extract a large

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: 5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: Hi! I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Stefan Krantz
I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar Is there any possible way to extract the file? It

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: 5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large: yabba# ls -la pictures.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Tim Robbins
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:37:26AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: 5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But it shows only to be about 3gb large:

Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:37:26AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: The feature stuff needs to be handled for writing. I discovered that a few minutes after posting the patch :-) I decided to take the lazy way out for now and to return EFBIG if we would need