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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