[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Darxus writes: > > Well, I remembered seeing something somewhere that let me find the inode > > number of a file, and found it in ls's man page. Any chance I can use an > > inode number to tell dd where to find it ? > > Isn't the file on a fat32 filesystem? Seems like this is the place for DOS > filesystem tools.
Aha!!! I'll bet John is right - mtools should not go through the VFS layer, and should be able to read a file this size. It's too bad we don't have an mcat... Aha again! We do. Ok, here's what you need to do: * Get and install mtools.deb * Edit /etc/mtools.conf, set it up so it can access your dos partition, as say, drive c: (follow the comments, looks easy). * mtype c:/huge.tar.gz | tar .... I think this'll work. -- see shy jo
