Quoting M. Osten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is *not* a limitation of the filesystem. Greater than 2gig files
> are allowed when glibc is compiled against 2.4.x headers. This does not
> mean that everything will support greater than 2 gig. Samba and the
> gnome filemanager to name two.(in the 2.2.x era distros). I believe
> that all of the distros that ship with the 2.4.x kernel now support
> greater than 2 gig across the board.
>
Ok, after editing the /etc/limits file I seem to be able to create files greater
than 2Gig, I got one up to 2.6gig and then tar just exited, not what I wanted, but a
start...
Thanks for all the help,
Julia
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