Re: 2GB max file size

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:06 Carl's cat walking on the keyboard  wrote:

> Luca,
>
> tar will handle input files greater than 2GB.
>
> I use files greater than 2GB on a RedHat 8 system with
> a generic 2.4.20 kernel and tar (version = tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25)
>
> I can also use dump/restore for backing up to tape.
>


Actually I'm trying with zip, that fails if the file becomes bigger than 2 GB. 
SInce I remember that, due to the i-node structure, unix cannot handle a file 
greater than 2GB, I was wondering the problem was of the filesystem and not 
of the program itself. However, before renouncing to use zip, is there 
something I can do on the filesystem to handle bigger files?

Luca

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