On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > > What version of glibc?
> > 
> > It's whatever Debian unstable is currently using:
> > 
> > $ dpkg -l | grep libc
> > ii  libc6          2.2.5-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> > ii  libc6-dev      2.2.5-12       GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
> > ...
> 
> running the same library here, I can create 3GB files no problem. I'm on
> ext3, tho.
> do you have any other partitions with a different filesystem that you can
> try creating large files on?

Mentioning ext3 reminded me, there are two versions of ext2.  So it depends on
when you created it.  If you created the paration with the newer versions of
mke2fs you'll have the extended attributes, which allow big files.  If not,
you're stuck under 2GB.

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