Re: datafile size

  • From: "Tanel Poder" <tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:21:28 +0200

> 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.


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