Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:00:39 +0200 | From | Tim Tassonis <> | Subject | Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6 |
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:37 +0100 (BST) Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> glibc 2.1.x has minimal support for 64bit file size handling. You probably > need to build 64bit aware tools. You might also be hitting a device bug that > seems to be in Linus kernel where devices are inheriting the file size limit > of the underlying fs the /dev node is on. However I thought that was long > fixed. >
The latter seems to be the case because Vita Samel (hope I got this right) just reported that "Booting into 2.4.10-ac10" fixed the problem. Perhaps it once was fixed and later defixed?
Bye Tim
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