Knoppix file size limit?

[Bill Davidson]

On 12:38 Tue 25 Jan     , 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.

Actually, I was refering to this point:
"Note that the smbfs filesystem driver in the stock 2.4 kernels does not support
large files."

> I tried the "Linux26" boot option in Knoppix with the same results.

Well ... I guess that makes the above point moot.

> At the moment I'm trying again with a SimplyMEPIS disk. I'll know in a 
> few minutes.

Good idea.

Bill