backup with dd tool

[Jake Johnson]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:15:17PM +0530, Nabin Limbu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to clone my hard disk with dd tool. One of my partition has about 6 GB of 
> contents. so whenI try to backup my partition with the command:
> 	dd if=/dev/sda1 bs-512 | gzip -9/mnt/sda3.dd.gz, 
> then I got error saying file size limit exceeded after backing up 2GB. It seems file size 
> has limited only up to 2GB size. Now how can I backup my 6GB content with dd tool.
> 
> With Regards
> Nabin Limbu
> 
> 
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The problem is that ext2 has a file limitation of 2G.  One solution is to save it to a win32 artition that is big enough to hold your 6G files.
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