Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz
Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing
that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits
(which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g.
Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems.
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Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or
that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb. If the latter
than does that mean that a linux disk partition can't be larger than
2GB in size? My '/' partition is 4gb large. Am I throwing away the
last 2gb?
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