Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 14:02:26 +0100 on Wednesday, April 13, 2011:
 > 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

I believe the OP was talking about 32bit Windows. Though even on WinXP
or Win2000 I don't believe that is a limitation (unless you use FAT32
rather than NTFS). Perhaps the OP was talking about FAT32...

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