> And they say that size doesn't matter? Can utilities like tar, cpio, > gzip and bzip2 operate on such monsters? I know that "rm -f" will not > have problems even with the largest file, but that's probably not > something that my boss would like to see. I don't know about others, but dd in my RHAS 3.0 supports block size specifications up to zetta- and yottabytes - you can use dd bs=10G for example, to get 10 GB blocksizes, but also letters T P E Z and Y are supported :) Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l