Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-17 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 10:45, Osamu Aoki wrote: > In woody: > > $ man 5 apt_preferences Ahhh, thanks! Andreas

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:26:41AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work > > machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep > > one default release but gives you th

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work > machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one > default release but gives you the abbility to "hand pick" things from > testing. Very neat. I also use

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
> >[ ... ] > I missed some info... Here's the source to some of my assumptions/statements: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my "normal" work machine I use a testing "enhanced" potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but g

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > > I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a > > potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to > > compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patch) since I upgraded from (a > >

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a > potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to > compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patch) since I upgraded from (a > perfectly stable) 2.2.19, you shouldn

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Emil Pedersen
Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Which release, which kernel? > > I can sucesfully make > 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using > either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. > > There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support > 2g files but > most of the critica

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Antti Tolamo
Rupa Schomaker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I forgot to mention that. Potato 2.2.19r4 Antti

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Guy Geens
> "Antti" == Antti Tolamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antti> Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my Antti> system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do Antti> have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. XFS should be able to handle la

Re: 2 GB limit with ext2

2001-11-16 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I can sucesfully make > 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support > 2g files but most of the critical ones do and for those that don't it is fa