SUMMARY:File too large

From: Trubkina I. (asa@mmk.ru)
Date: Thu Jun 10 1999 - 08:11:44 CDT


Original guestion was

> I have a problem:
>
> #gzip -l personal.dmp.gz
> compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
> 352465885 -2109037568 0.0% personal.dmp
>
> #gzip -dv personal.dmp.gz
> personal.dmp.gz:
> gzip: personal.dmp: File too large
>
> I do it on local disk mounted with largefiles-option on Solaris2.6.
> I tried ulimit command but nothing.
> Can it be some problems with gzip(ver 1.2.2)?
>
> I'l try other archivers...

Thanks to Robert Hill <Robert_Hill@cch.com>

> You need version gzip-1.2.4.4294967298, which is an
> alpha test release. It can handle files over 2Gb. You
> can get it at :
> www.sunfreeware.com

But I did it myself too.
Standart command which come with Solaris support filesize > 2Gb ( compress,tar ...).
But some downloaded free commands does't support largefiles ( GNU gzip,tar ... ).

So now I'm satisfied.
Thanks.



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