On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:54:32AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Mon Feb 5 00:41:24 2001 Tommy Wu wrote...
> >
> >"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
> >
> >> > Catch is, I need to be able to back up partitons that will be over 2G,
> >> > even
> >> > after compression.
> >
> > try to use 'afio' to backup files. it could splite file as you want.
> >
>
> Sorry, this is not a applicable answer. I already have, and am
> _very_ happy with Amanada, as a backup methodology. I just need to
> know how to get Debian to support files > 2G.
You use the current glibc (can't recall if 2.1 supported it or not...)
and a 2.4 series kernel.
> It's my understanding, that ex2fs can do this, but that I may need
> the 2.4 kernel to make it work.
Yes.
> Is this correct? If so, where do I get, an how do I install "the
> Debian way" this version of the kernel on Poatato?
'apt-get install kernel-package'
Download the kernel source from kernel.org. kernel-package will control
the building of the kernel and make nice .deb's you can install (and
remove of course).
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