Knoppix file size limit?

[Tim Wunder]

On 1/25/2005 1:46 PM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> That's a good thought, thanks. But I'd also like to hold the option to 
> mount the iso on the host for access to individual files if needed. 
> Course I could always just unzip the image on the host.
> 
> Might be worth a try just to see how small the .gz would end up.
> 
> (Phooey! SimplyMEPIS died at the same spot. Looks like your idea is the 
> next thing to try.)
> 

Could be this:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-January/060597.html

An smbmnt kernel issue.
Of course the link to the fix is broken...

<checks more google hits...>
Try this:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Jun/0752.html

That is, if you can remount the smb mount with the -lfs option without too 
much dificulty...

HTH,
Tim