On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:15:17PM +0530, Nabin Limbu wrote: > Hi, > > I want to clone my hard disk with dd tool. One of my partition has about 6 GB of > contents. so whenI try to backup my partition with the command: > dd if=/dev/sda1 bs-512 | gzip -9/mnt/sda3.dd.gz, > then I got error saying file size limit exceeded after backing up 2GB. It seems file size > has limited only up to 2GB size. Now how can I backup my 6GB content with dd tool. > > With Regards > Nabin Limbu > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > http://www.plutoid.com/ The problem is that ext2 has a file limitation of 2G. One solution is to save it to a win32 artition that is big enough to hold your 6G files. -- Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
