Re: [Bug-cpio] File foo grew, 0 new bytes not copied

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Peter Vrabec <address@hidden> wrote:

> $ ll /tmp/velky
> -rw-rw-r--  1 peter peter 4300000000 Mar  1 13:01 /tmp/velky
> $find /tmp/velky | ./cpio --format=crc -o > archiv.cpio
> ./cpio: File /tmp/velky grew, 0 new bytes not copied

Oops, sorry, I wasn't attentive enough and didn't notice the file
format used. The crc format is unable to accomodate files larger than
4G-1 bytes. If you need to store bigger files, try using 'old ascii'
format (-H odc option), which allows to store files up to 8G-1 bytes
long.

Regards,
Sergey