Re: max filesize dd

[Jim Meyering]

Robert Verhagen <address@hidden> wrote:
| I tried to copy a 3 gigabyte hd to another hd, to make a image from the 3
| gb hd. I user dd version: [dd (GNU fileutils) 4.0] (whitch comes
| with redhat 6.1). The maximal filesize
| is 2 gigabyte! Do you know if a newer version of dd doesn't have this size
| limit?

Here's the latest test release.
It should work better.  But its mkdir still has a small bug:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.31.tar.gz