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, 25 Jan 2001 12:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:05:30 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:62406 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:05:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:03:11 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Mike Black Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" , Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: Largefile support in 2.4 Message-ID: <20010125170311.C12984@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <06dc01c0863d$29383390$e1de11cc@csihq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <06dc01c0863d$29383390$e1de11cc@csihq.com>; from mblack@csihq.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:38:00PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:38:00PM -0500, Mike Black wrote: > How do normal users get to create/maintain large files (i.e. >2G) in Linux > 2.4 on i386? > The root user can make filesize unlimited but a non-root user cannot. They > come up with the same limits in both tcsh and bash (i.e. filesize > 1048576 kbytes or 0x40000000) Check your distribution's login process. The kernel sets no default limit, but several distributions let you set default limits for login. It's quite common to see core limits set on all logins, and I seem to recall at least Debian setting some of the other limits too. --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/