Recover datafile that has extended beyond OS limit?

We have a Linux server running Oracle 8.1.7 and we have a data file (users01.dbf) that had "autoextend" enabled and has now grown past the upper limit of the underlying filesystem. Oracle will not open the file, as the OS returns an error: "Linux Error: 75: Value too large for defined data type"
Here are some details:
OS: Redhat 7
Filesystem: Ext2
Oracle Ver: 8.1.7
DBF Size: >2gb
I have attempted to copy the .dbf files to a new server with little luck. Redhat 10 with Oracle 10 complained that the ctl files were corrupt, so I deleted them and recreated them based on the data files. After that, the DB indicated that the datafiles needed a media recovery, so I performed a "recover datafile..." on each of them successfully. Once I try to open the database, I get a "End of communication channel" error. I cannot mount it in Windows as the blocksizes are different (8192 vs. 4096)
I am at the end of my ideas on how to recover this file. Any suggestions?
I have thought of:
1. Bring a copy of 8.1.7 up on a new Redhat system running a newer FS (Reiser) and try to open the file
2. Add a new drive to the old sever and format that with the new FS, copy the dbf files there and point the DB to those files
Any tools that I try to run on the old server all hit the roadblock of the Linux:75 error.
Thanks for any ideas that come to mind.

Can you give more detail about how you tried to copy the database files?
First, I assume you are copying with the database down right?
I would not change versions of Oracle during the copy, only the OS.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 will work with your version of Oracle but I cannot from memory remember what its OS limit is.
I would research either Suse 9 or Red Hat 9 and see if they work with your version of Oracle and support larger file limits.
This site appears not to have info on Oracle 8 http://www.puschitz.com/
However, he can had it in the past and he might provide some help.
I like the copy idea, but I think you might lose some data.
I'm thinking you will try this if you iron out the OS issue
Start the database mount
SQLPLUS> alter database recover database until cancel using backup controlfile;
SQLPLUS> alter database recover cancel;
SQLPLUS> alter database open resetlogs;
I wish you luck and no loss of data!

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