Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> I think that dd will have no problem to truncate you file :
> dd if=tarfile of=just_a_try bs=1k count=2000000 would give you a file
> named just_a_try containing the beginning of your tarfile but limited
> to a size of slightly less than 2GB. Just ajust the count value if you
> don't have enough space. With the skip parameter you'll be able to get
> the end of your file too.
>
> I've tried that with small file and it works and dd is able to cope with
> partition of any size I think, so : it should work.
Nope, doesn't work. Apparently even dd goes through the vfs layer.
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