[arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 10:50:56 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer<dschauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow Archers,
>
> I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh
> to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup
> method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a
> system and start over.

Why did you need to use dd? Wouldn't cat be enough?
Maybe dd has some limitation/bug?

-- 
damjan


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