Problem ext2

Björn König bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Apr 28 23:57:13 PDT 2005


pier wrote:

>I need ext2 because i need to exchange very big files (dvd iso images)
>with linux computers.
>But everytime i try to copy a big file i receive this message:
>
>cp: ./sarge-i386-1.iso: File too large
>  
>
FreeBSD might only be able to deal with files smaller than 2 GiB on ext2 
file systems. Use a program like lxsplit to cut the file into chunks 
first, e.g.

  lxsplit -s filename 1024M

and join it later with

  lxsplit -j filename.001

Björn



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