[wplug] NC, DD, and Gzip...

[Moshe Katz-Hyman]

The 2GB limit is actually a file size limit inherent in old linux 
kernels.  If you use a reasonably new kernel and not any sort of weird 
filesystem, there is no longer a 2GB filesize limit.

So yeah, piping the images through gzip or bzip2 or whatever should be 
fine.

Moshe

On Nov 15, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Mike wrote:

> Lately I've been using netcat and dd to backup machines I frequently 
> clone..
>
> Problem is the images are huge.  Is it possible to pipe the output
> thru gzip or or just zip (example?)?  I read somewhere the max size
> for gzip is 2gb..
>
> -mike
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