from the freshmeat article: "(Note that Unix98 mandates that base utilities like "cat" and "cp" be compiled with largefile support.) "
are tar and bz2 included in that list of "base utilities"? how can i tell? if not, can i make it so? -- o great spirit, who made all races, look kindly upon the whole human family and take away the arrogance and hatred which separates us from our brothers. - cherokee prayer On March 3, 2003 03:34 pm, James Michael Fultz wrote: > * 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
