On Jun 10, 2002  08:09 -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> # rm test.bigfile ;dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=1023M
> dd: advancing past 1098437885952 bytes in output file `./test.bigfile':
> File too large

OK, my bad.  This should have been:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=2047k

Even so, this probably won't fix your problem.  I would suggest creating
a test 3.6 format filesystem (loopback or such) and see if that works.
With the seek= argument you don't need a very big filesystem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

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