Paul Howarth wrote:Sharon Kimble wrote:Paul Howarth wrote:Sharon Kimble wrote:I've just spent about 18 hours downloading the Fedora Core 3 test 3 DVD using wget, and its just died on me when it reached a file size of 2gb with an error message of 'File size limit exceeded'.
How can I get round this please so that I can get the DVD and test FC3?
What type of filesystem were you trying to download it onto?
An ext2/ext3 filesystem will have no problem with such a large file, but a VFAT filesystem will.
Sheesh Paul, that was quick! :))
Just into my home folder which is the fedora default filesystem, ?ext3?
What's the output of the following commands when run in the directory you're trying to download to?
df . mount
Paul.
gads:~/downloads$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdf2 26739660 13785804 11595528 55% / /dev/hdf1 99043 9578 84351 11% /boot none 517844 0 517844 0% /dev/shm
gads:~/downloads$ mount /dev/hdf2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hdf1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
So it looks like my root and home drive are on /dev/hdf2.
Perhaps the problem is with wget rather than the underlying filesystem. It may not support files > 2GB. Try using curl instead:
curl --output FC3-test3-i386-DVD.iso --remote-time --continue-at - http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/linux/fedora-core/test/2.92/i386/iso/FC3-test3-i386-DVD.iso
(the command is all one line; use your favourite mirror instead of sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de of course)
Paul.
