[CLUE-Talk] file-splitting

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:46, David Willson wrote:
> Argh!
> 
> OK, I just tried 'split' over an smbmount of the folder containing the
> piggy file, and I got the same darned thing.  The first volume is the
> half-Gig that I requested, the second is 325.7 Mb, and my 'split' job
> quietly went to a done state, as if it had finished the job I asked
> for...  Any further ideas?


Before you were using tar on Win2k and now split over an smb-shared
device...  and you expect different results?  As I said earlier, your
problem in all likelihood has nothing to do with either tar or split. 
Its the file system (part of the OS) not allowing you to read beyound
the 1Gig mark.  So using an SMB share means you are still accessing the
file through Win2k and still have the (likely) FS problem.

Again, why don't you quit fooling around and either:

  - ftp/scp/whatever the file to a Linux/Unix box,  or

  - physically move the drive to a Linux/Unix box,  or

  - use a floppy or CD-based distro (eg. the linuxcare "bootable 
    business card" or the "Tom's root boot" distros) to run Linux 
    on *that* box

good luck,
Ed


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