Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:27:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | skp <> | Subject | Re: >2 gig files on 2.4.0-test6? |
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, skp wrote: > > > Not precisely sure where this should go - but I figure this is a likely > > list to try. > > > > I have 2.4.0-test6 running here. I've recently installed a brand new 30 > > gig hd with an empty ext2 filesystem, and decided to try creating a file > > larger than 2 gigs on it. > > I think you need to recompile your fileutils. With Glibc-2.1.3 and > fileutils-4.0 compiled with it's headers I have no problems dealing > with large files.
Hmm. As posted a bit earlier, I have Slackware 7.0 installed, which uses glibc 2.1.2. Compiling against that doesn't appear to work.
I'll try installing the glibc 2.1.3 package, and see if that clears things up a bit.
> > [root]:# uname -a > Linux el-kaboom 2.4.0-test7 #3 Fri Aug 25 15:11:31 CEST 2000 i686 unknown > [root]:# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=10240k count=450 > 450+0 records in > 450+0 records out > [root]:# ll bigfile > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4718592000 Aug 26 09:07 bigfile > [root]:# > > -Mike > >
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