On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > 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).
nothing in /var/log, however doing the dd under strace, the last write(1,..) returns -1 (EFBIG) and the process is killed by SIGFXSZ. Nothing I didn't already know, but there you are. 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
