[Gloucs] disk image to ftp server?

Guy Edwards gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 20 07:19:16 2003


On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:52, Iain Calder wrote:
> Glyn Davies wrote:
> 
> >
> > Mark has a little concerned with his 2GB Linux file size limit. I have 
> > a 2.5GB home dir .gz that verifies okay. Actally, it was a 5GB tar 
> > before that. Anyone know the answer to this? 2Gb seems a little pants. 
> 
> Limit for 2.4.x kernels and glibc >= 2.2 (i.e. almost all recent 
> distributions) is 2TB for ext2/ext3.  Previously it was 2GB.

Cheers for all the responses, I posted the email on Tuesday but it didnt
turn up on the list for days due to my dodgy mail account. Hence I've
been running around with install disks doing each PC by hand.

I'll know for next time though,

Guy