On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:50:11 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think there must be a solution for that "roof" of 2 GB for a single file. It > will be great, since my backups are often bigger than 2 GB so I cannot > zip/tar them in a single file. Any suggestion? The solution was implemented quite some time ago, I can't even recall how long ago. I regularly create 10G to 200G files on Linux with standard tools. What kernel/glibc/filesystem are you running? thornton - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html