Knoppix file size limit?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote:
>
> > On 11:34 Tue 25 Jan     , 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.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps this is your problem:
> > http://www.linux.org.za/Lists-Archives/glug-tech-0307/msg00153.html
>
> Thanks. But it doesn't appear so.
>
> The box I'm writing to is Ubuntu with 2.6.8 and XFS under the hood. I
> made a backup to it via Samba just yesterday with a file size > 4GB.
>
> I tried the "Linux26" boot option in Knoppix with the same results.

which option?  i've not seen a 'Linux26' option in knoppix.  did that boot
you a 2.6.x kernel?  I've written files in knoppix that were much larger
than 2GB before.

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