On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr > partition. > > Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split > or something then reverse the process with restore later? > > Working with what will be approximately a 6GB L0 dump so over 3x the size > limitation. > > examples or suggestions appreciated > > Dave Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! ;) -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5191390944 Nov 17 06:02 babelfish_data.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35176571 Nov 25 04:06 babelfish_data_1.gz Any idea what I'm doing wrong (or right)? Using dump on 4.7-RELEASE. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message