CPIO is unable to work on file bigger than 2 Gig 1

[megh101]

Hi,

We are trying to CPIO a 3.5 Gig file from one system to another system and CPIO fails with error message something like 'Data type too large, not dumped.'
It is not the exact message but tells what I am trying to say. We checked the filesystem it is accepting largefiles.

Any help/thougts will be helpful to me.

Thanks .

 

[patel]

Hi
I belive that cpio does not support large file.

Sachin

 

[MikeLacey]

meg

Have you considered using tar? Mike
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[doone128]

You can use dd, which is also very fast.

 

[MikeLacey]

actually - I don't think that tar supports large files either (although dd doesn't care)

you have to use something called pax instead of tar Mike
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[patel]

Hi Megh,
tar, cpio will not work on file greater the 2gb. rdist will not work either. So the best way to transfer file from one system to another is ftp.

Sachin