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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote: > "... there is a serious restriction in that a file in an ext2 > filesystem on hardware > with 32-bit integers cannot be larger than 2 GiB". > > So, the question: is there a way around this, short of making multiple > TAR files? I believe this limitation disappeared (or changed) in the 2.4 kernel. On a machine with 2.4.9: [root at localhost root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test-file bs=1M count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out [root at localhost root]# ls -lh - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G Oct 30 12:07 test-file On another machine I managed to create a file of ~70GB while benchmarking the disks. If 2.4 isn't an option, Google seems to indicate that there are (were?) projects to implement workarounds in 2.2. This link looks promising: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html - -- -Matt No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE73wx7c8/WFSz+GKMRAnMgAKCMyub+5y4wA2Xt8RVV7BttjknjTQCffjw6 PlOIyZL6t9+3pdyMaaxQyhk= =66r2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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