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ptran
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Posted: June 30 2005,18:01 QUOTE
Oh, one more thing after I read roberts' post again.
If you create a swap partition (4GB), then "mkswap" will use only around 2GB.  Right after that, I rebooted the system with Knoppix CD, did "mkswap", it used all the size of the partition.

I use DSL on CD, boot it up, partition harddisk (using fdisk) into hda1 (100M), hda2 (4GB), hda3(6GB) without any problem.  hda2 is swap.  Doing "mkswap" will use only 2G of hda2. Then cp a large file from CD drive  into hda3, ls and rm have problem with "value too large".
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Posted: June 30 2005,20:39 QUOTE
Most all of my problems went away with large files and
filesystems once I loaded up the gnu-utils.dsl .

I wonder if the busybox versions of ls , cp, and support
for the filesystems is limited by the use of busybox itself.

Try an enhanced install, or install gnu-utils ,
and/or try copying to another location/filesystem..

Using ext2 worked for me, but fat16/fat32 always
errored with the 2GB filesize limitation.
I don't know of a workaround using DOS/M$ filesystems.

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Posted: July 02 2005,06:13 QUOTE
The busybox "dd" command chokes at above 2GB, while the "real" GNU dd command works fine with large files.

So I think that your assumptions about Busybox in general are correct.
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Posted: July 02 2005,12:31 QUOTE
It is possible to access files greater than 2GB with busybox. Enabling support for this is a compile time option for busybox. I guess the version included in DSL simply hasn't been compiled with this option.
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