REGIMBEAU M InfoDpcCli wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to create a large file (> 2^31 bytes).
> The following simple test :
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096k count=600
> returns an error, regardless of the distribution (Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 6.2).
>
> I don't know if I have to patch the kernel, the glibc or both of them.
>
> Does anybody have an idea ?
Yes: You can't. 2GB is the max file size, probably because
that is the max signed longword value. This may get fixed in
kernel 2.4, but I'm not sure.
Ron
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