From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:08:59 -0600 Message-ID: <20020610160859.GJ20388@turbolinux.com> References: <1023708533.4654.301.camel@xserver> <20020609183534.GC14168@turbolinux.com> <1023754229.4654.1831.camel@xserver> <20020609231608.B8386@namesys.com> <1023780454.3999.52.camel@xserver> <20020610085822.A10921@namesys.com> <1023717954.6272.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1023718181.6272.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1023718181.6272.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Worley Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Jun 10, 2002 08:09 -0600, Chris Worley wrote: > # rm test.bigfile ;dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=1023M > dd: advancing past 1098437885952 bytes in output file `./test.bigfile': > File too large OK, my bad. This should have been: dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=2047k Even so, this probably won't fix your problem. I would suggest creating a test 3.6 format filesystem (loopback or such) and see if that works. With the seek= argument you don't need a very big filesystem. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/