Knoppix file size limit?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

perhaps:

	dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -c >/mnt/public/hddimage.iso.gz

After all, I bet lots of the disk is empty and thus would benefit from
compression.

You were not planning on accessing the saved image, except to possibly
put it back with:

	gzcat /mnt/public/hddimage.iso.gz | dd of=/dev/hda

Were you?

	

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:34 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I'm attempting to use Knoppix 3.7 to take a complete hdd image of an XP 
> box I'm about to mangle. I did:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/public/hddimage.iso bs=8k
> 
> Where that mount point is on another box running Samba. Well the .iso 
> got up to 2.1GB when it quit with "File size limit exceeded." I then 
> noticed that Knoppix runs kernel 2.4.27.
> 
> Is this a "feature" of that kernel? Any way around it?
> 
> Michael
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