[ale] CPIO and > 2Gig files

[Yu, Jerry]

since cpio is reading from STDIN already (cpio -itv < bigFile), can we
assume 'cat bigFile | cpio -itv'  won't work either?
 
 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Bridges,
Doug
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:25 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] CPIO and > 2Gig files



I am trying to open up a backup that was created with CPIO and it is giving
me the error that the file is too large.  The file is 2.5 gig.  I have seen
references on the web to compiling cpio in 64 bit mode, but I am not sue
exactly how to go about doing that.  I am running Fedora Core 2 (on Intel),
and the partition is an ext3 partition.  Any ideas on how I can extract out
the files in this archive.  I downloaded the cpio source from GNU, but I did
not see an intuitive way to change it to allow for the larger files.

Thanks, 
Doug 



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