Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6

From: Tim Tassonis (timtas@dplanet.ch)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 10:45:31 EST


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:27:44 +0100 (BST)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > When I try to create a partition of 2GB using fdisk or parted, I get
the
> > error "File size limit exceeded (core dumped)". I already read about
this
> > error on the mailing list, but sadly not of any solution.
>
> Make sure you have limits set right and a new enough glibc.

I'm using a Red Hat 6.2 system with glibc 2.1.3 (glibc-2.1.3-22), the
latest for Red Hat 6.2. Switching to 7.x would mean to upgrade the whole
system, I guess I can't just take the glibc rpm out of 7.x and everything
still runs fine?

So that means I'm really fucked?

Bye
Tim
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Oct 31 2001 - 21:00:21 EST