Knoppix file size limit?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.

At the "Boot:" prompt F3 brought up a list that offered the 
"Experimental Linux 2.6 kernel." Later a 'uname -r' showed it to be 
running 2.6.9 IIRC. I'm dinking with a SimplyMEPIS disk at the moment so 
I can't double-check.

Michael