On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 21:26, Dan Drake wrote: > I thought this was no longer a problem as of the 2.4 kernels, but: I'm > having problems creating a file larger than 2 gigabytes (2^31 bytes). > > I'm doing this on a Reiser partition. I'm running Debian unstable with > kernel 2.4.19-rc1. > > First I was backing things up, and tar choked when the tarball hit 2GB. > Thinking that perhaps it was a tar problem, I took a file that's over a > gigabyte (call it "fred"), copied it a file called "huge", then tried this: > > cat fred >> huge What command line did you use for tar? Did it have a pipe in it? What shell are you using? I suspect the problem might be that your shell can't handle piping data for more than 2GB, though I've never run into that problem before (and I can't remember if this would indicate a shell problem, or if it's something more obscure). Also, maybe you can try doing `dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.dat bs=1M count=2049' and see if dd can create a 2049 MB file. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Ethernet: something used to / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ catch the Etherbunny \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020803/eaf69ee3/attachment.pgp