From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Disk Image with Linux
Date: 4 Jan 2001 11:59:58 GMT
Organization: Dueling Modems:  <http://dm.net>
Message-ID: <slrn958pdu.smq.carlf@home.nitpicking.com>
References: <3A5447CF.71CEF84@gmx.net>
Reply-To: carlf@dm.net

On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:52:15 +0100 Tobias Wolff <twslw@gmx.net> wrote:

>I tried : dd if=/dev/hda4 of=(OutputFilename). This works good for
>partitions smaller then 2gb. If the partition is bigger there comes the
>message file to long.
>Has anyone a solution?

Newer kernel version and file system type.  Kernels before 2.3x don't
allow files bigger than 2 GB, as you discovered.  Try one of the 2.4
not-quite-final versions.
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Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
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