Greetings, I tried to get the wikipedia DVD image from ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de/wp_1_2005.iso and there is a problem with the size handling in wget. Filesystem is ext3 and does definitively support files greater than 2GB.
wget justs abort at 2GB-1 Byte and declares the file as "already retrieved" "wget --spider" reports a negative filesize. 0 mandola ~>wget --spider ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de/wp_1_2005.iso --17:01:21-- http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de/wp_1_2005.iso => `wp_1_2005.iso.1' Resolving ftp.uni-erlangen.de... 131.188.3.71 Connecting to ftp.uni-erlangen.de[131.188.3.71]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: -1,542,565,888 [application/octet-stream] 200 OK 0 mandola ~>wget --version GNU Wget 1.9.1 0 mandola ~/we/wikipedia/ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de>wget -c ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de/wp_1_2005.iso --17:32:16-- http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de/wp_1_2005.iso => `wp_1_2005.iso' Resolving ftp.uni-erlangen.de... 131.188.3.71 Connecting to ftp.uni-erlangen.de[131.188.3.71]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do. 0 mandola ~/we/wikipedia/ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de>ll wp_1_2005.iso -rw------- 1 elgert stud 2147483647 Apr 18 18:54 wp_1_2005.iso 0 mandola ~/we/wikipedia/ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/wikipedia.de> Alexander Elgert