Re: File System Limitations

Doug McNaught
2001-08-23T23:59:01Z

Tony Hoyle <tmh@nothing-on.tv> writes:

> Fred wrote:
> > so why dos my filesystem have a 2 GB limit?
> > Must I specify a large block size or some such when i format?
> > i run 2.4.9 on redhat7.1 out of the box
>
> >
>
> Does it? Unless RH are using a seriously old glibc (which I doubt)
> there's no 2GB limit any more.

I just did:

[doug@abbadon workspace]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024k count=3072
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out
[doug@abbadon workspace]$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 doug doug 3221225472 Aug 23 20:01 foo
[doug@abbadon workspace]$

-Doug
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