From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:44:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:43:54 -0400 Received: from [213.97.137.182] ([213.97.137.182]:6660 "HELO pp.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:43:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Eduardo =?iso-8859-1?q?Cort=E9s?= To: lkml Subject: file size > 2gb Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:41:11 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042612411100.00850@TheBeast> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I try to generate a big file with a kernel 2.4.2, and I can do it, but when I do ls -l, rm file, o something else with the file, I receive # ls -l ls: filename: Value too large for defined data type I reboot with my old kernel, 2.2.18, and I can ls the file, renove it, etc... I can see that the created file is bigger than 2gb (the last I generate was 2.7 gb). what happen? why I cannot ls the file with 2.4 and I can with 2.2? I need files bigger than 2 gb, what can I do? thanks.