Knoppix file size limit?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.

that's prolly the knoppix26 option.  which version of knoppix are you
using?

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