From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The file NLDV.0111071919 is 2.3g when I compress it I got the followingmessage $ compress NLDV.0111071919 read error onNLDV.0111071919: Value too large for defined data type ----------------- I use gzip , it works, it create a *.gz file, but when I use gunzip to extract the gz file, it failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.compress filename (filename's size is above 2g) 2. 3.or gzip filename Actual Results: It can not compress 2g file. Expected Results: It can compress any size file . for gzip, as it zip a file , I should use gunzip to unzip the file. Additional info:
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RHL 6.2 doesn't have large file support - Red Hat Linux 7.1 and later does. 7.2 is recommended.