> And they say that size doesn't matter? Can utilities like tar, cpio,
> gzip and bzip2 operate on such monsters? I know that "rm -f" will not
> have problems even with the largest file, but that's probably not
> something that my boss would like to see.
I don't know about others, but dd in my RHAS 3.0 supports block size specifications up to zetta- and yottabytes - you can use dd bs=10G for example, to get 10 GB blocksizes, but also letters T P E Z and Y are supported :)
Tanel.
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