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, 23 Aug 2001 23:39:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:39:19 -0400 Received: from [209.38.98.99] ([209.38.98.99]:4994 "EHLO srvr201.castmark.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:38:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Fred To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File System Limitations Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:39:13 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082322391300.12871@bits.linuxball> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I tried dd (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36 (redhat 7.1) and compiled and installed dd (fileutils) 4.1 still [root@bits /a5]# /usr/fileutils/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M File size limit exceeded (core dumped) [root@bits /a5]# ls total 2098436 8 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 8192 Aug 23 22:07 . 1120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1146880 Aug 23 22:07 core 2097152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2147483647 Aug 23 22:07 tgb no errors in /var/log/messages some system info amd k6-II 500 256 MB ram Ali 1541/3 chipset WD 20GB 7200 rpm and WD 13GB 540 rpm on one cable kernel-2.4.9 /a5 directory above is /dev/hda5 a vfat partition (is this the problem?) TIA Fred _________________________________________________ On Thursday 23 August 2001 06:52 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > glibc-2.2.2-10 > > Your C library is new enough > > > [root@bits /a5]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M > > File size limit exceeded (core dumped) > > But your dd program might not be > > Alan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/