Hello,
2 GB is the limit in ext2 file system for the length
of one file. Are you writing your backup
into one file/archive?
How about trying to compress your backup on the fly.
perhaps it fits then.
dd has no limits afaik. try for example:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024000 count=10000
and you have moved 10G of zeros into the trash :)
Saludos
Tilman
Jim Gallagher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use dd on tomsrtbt to backup a 3 GB disk partition. I can get 2
> GB off the partition, but that's it. Is dd using a long to count bytes? If
> so, any change of changing this to a long long?
>
> I looked around for the source, but I didn't find it. Where should I have
> looked?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
