* gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03 Mar 2003 10:02]: > i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 > system (that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher.... > why then can't i build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine? [ ... ]
It's not a filesystem problem, but one of largefile support in software. I've encountered the same problem at times and was able to use dd as a work-around. If you can pipe the output to another program, pipe it through dd and have dd write your file. My last experience found dd having largefile support. The following freshmeat.net article may be helpful in explaining the problem: <http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/709/> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
