Summary: unable to unzip file more than 2GB

Hi ALL,

I received alot of replies and really appreciated for
that.

Most of the people stated that file system must be
mounted with "largefiles" option that I already
did. By default, Solaris 8 is "largefiles" enabled
on file system.

The rest pointed to me that I should get a new version
of the gunzip that can be downloaded from freewares
and
it should work. I'll try that later but I found a 
workaround as follows:

# gzcat Mas.gz > Mas

Hope the information help.

Regards,
Tim

--- Sun Fire <starcat524@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Sun Managers,
> 
> Hope someone out there can help me on this problem.
> I've received a gz format file from one of my friend
> 
> and when I tried to unzip this file on my Solaris 8
> machine using Solaris 8 gzip and gunzip binary,
> after the extraction more than 2GB, unzipping failed
> 
> and stop there giving me error "File too large".
> 
> # ls -l
> -rw-------   1 1234 staff    758407951 Aug 21 9:00 
> Mas.gz
> 
> # file Mas.gz
> Mas.gz:    gzip compressed data - deflate method ,
> original file name
> 
> # gzip -dv Mas.gz
> Mas.gz:
> gzip: Mas: File too large
> 
> # gunzip Mas.gz
> gunzip: Mas: File too large
> 
> From the truss output,  it shows EFBIG error.
> 
> read(3, " ,EFD1DC g v }12 E\tE0EE".., 32768)    =
> 32768
> write(4, " A T A G A A T T A G T A".., 32768)   =
> 32768
> write(4, " T C T C A C C T\n C C A".., 32768)   =
> 32767
> write(4, " G", 1)                              
> Err#27
> EFBIG
> write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
> write(2, " g z i p", 4)                         = 4
> write(2, " :  ", 2)                             = 2
> write(2, " M a s ", 3)                          = 3
> write(2, " :  ", 2)                             = 2
> write(2, " F i l e   t o o   l a r".., 14)      = 14
> write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
> close(4)                                        = 0
> unlink("Mas")                                   = 0
> llseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR)                          =
> 18657
> _exit(1)
> 
> Would someone enlighten me. Why I can't unzip a file
> that exceeded more than 2GB size? Is this a Solaris
> bugs or limitation?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
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