Re: [users] "Value too large for defined data type"?

["Eric N. Valor" <eric.valor@lutris.com>]

Thanks.  Your "dd..." trick is working.  Didn't even think of it (gee, 
that's what all that old legacy stuff is good for...!).  And yes, 
apparently this file is well over 2gb.

At 09:23 PM 7/3/2001 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:09:31 +0200, "Martin F. Krafft" writes:
> >also sprach Eric N. Valor (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:07:30PM -0700):
> >> I keep getting this message while trying to access a (presumably) very
> >> large file.  It's a tarball restored from tape.  I can't do anything more
> >> than "ls".  Even "ls -l" bombs with the message "Value too large for
> >> defined data type".
> >>
> >> What can I do about this?
> >
> >cat /dev/null > filename
>
> aieeeh. Are you sure he simply wants the file out-of-the-way?
>
> Admittedly, there´s not much else you can do about it if the file is
>  > 2 GB. If you want to get to the data _inside_ the tarball, I guess
>  your best bet would be something along `dd if=/dev/st0 | tar xv *`
>  in the directory where you want your files. Should have plenty of
>  free space there, though...




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