can't zip large files 2gb >
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 1 20:21:19 UTC 2007
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:58:26PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
> I am attempting to zip large files that are 2GB - 3GB.
>
> uname -a;
>
> FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #7
>
> I have tried gzip, bzip2 from the ports and rzip.
OK, none of those are "zip" though :) They're completely different
algorithms.
> All give no errors on zipping, but will not unzip, siting
> CRC errors.
>
> Is there a maximum file size for zipping? Is my system too old?
> Maybe a file or library that all zip programs depend on that is
> corrupt?
Quite possible your system is too old, it works on modern versions of
FreeBSD at least with gzip and bzip2.
Kris
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