Unless you are using a recent kernel and glibc which have LFS (large file
support) and then everything shall be dandy.
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:09:14 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Willy Tarreau <willy@novworld.Novecom.Fr>
> To: Frank.Butter@otto.de
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: help: hdd as raw device?
>
> If your disks are bigger than 2 GB, don't even think about backing them up in
> files. They will be truncated to 2 GB.
>
> The simpler you can do is to get the same disks, and dump the source onto the
> target with dd (or cp or cat > ...) :
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>
> You'll get an exact mirror of the disks.
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Willy
>
>
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