On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:38 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>       Googling a bit I found out 32b linux is limited to 2GB per file on
> account of the file system. 8GB is a lot more than 2GB, so this would explain
> the uncompression failing.

That limit is long gone:

root@frances:/tmp# uname -a
Linux frances 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC
2011 i686 GNU/Linux
root@frances:/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1048576 count=3072
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out
3221225472 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 57.5292 s, 56.0 MB/s
root@frances:/tmp# ls -lah test 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0G 2011-04-13 13:58 test
root@frances:/tmp# du -sh test
3.1G    test

There *WAS* a 2GB limit, under kernel 2.4 and ext2. Anything you
installed in the last 4 years does not have this issue.

Regards,
Tyler

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