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Re: Potato and files > 2G



On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:54:32AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Mon Feb  5 00:41:24 2001 Tommy Wu wrote...
> >
> >"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
> >
> >> > 	Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G, even
> >> > 	after compression. 
> >
> >  try to use 'afio' to backup files. it could splite file as you want.
> >
> 
> Sorry, this is not a applicable answer.  I already have, and am
> _very_ happy with Amanada, as a backup methodology.  I just need to
> know how to get Debian to support files > 2G.

You use the current glibc (can't recall if 2.1 supported it or not...)
and a 2.4 series kernel.

> It's my understanding, that ex2fs can do this, but that I may need
> the 2.4 kernel to make it work.

Yes.

> Is this correct?  If so, where do I get, an how do I install "the
> Debian way" this version of the kernel on Poatato?

'apt-get install kernel-package'

Download the kernel source from kernel.org.   kernel-package will control
the building of the kernel and make nice .deb's you can install (and
remove of course).

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