On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > Try a test like this: > dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1045876 count=1500
hmm. it's not tar then. I can't even create a file of 1.5G, but can create 750MB, and 1024MB. (I have plenty of free space, about 60G). Does this mean that the disk hasn't been formattted to take large files? I would have assumed with mke2fs from Nov 2002, that I would have been OK (mke2fs was compiled against glibc-2.3.1). The disk is ext3 (formatted with -j option). There are no options in mke2fs that talk about largefile support, that I can see. I just took the defaults for mke2fs. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
