Re: [Cooker] Howto create larger than 4gb files?

[Giuseppe Ghibo']

"R.I.P. Deaddog" wrote:

> 
> 4G = 2^32......
> not compiled with big filesystem support?
> 
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > With kernel 2.4.2, shouldn't it be possible to create files which are larger
> > than 4GB on a reiserfs 3.6 partition?  I've tried dd which is part of
> > fileutils-4.0-18mdk, but this stops at (4GB - 1Byte).
> >
> > Is this expected?

Are you sure it was a 3.6 partition and not a 3.5 partition which has
a file size limit to 4GB-1 bytes (3.6 to be created with mkreiserfs -v 2 and latest 
reiserfsprogs)?

Try this program:

Usage:

        bigfile1 bigfile.txt 5000

where 5000 is number of megabytes to write, so here 5GB.

Bye.
Giuseppe.

bigfile1