On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 02:02 -0500, Stefano Stalio wrote:
> Apparently i can not create files larger than 2Gb on my SL302 system (my
> filesystems are ext3).
It seems that itīs not a feature since on my SL302 Dell (kernel
2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp ext3 filesystem):
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=toto &
$ ls -lah toto
-rw-r--r-- 1 pfhonore dapsap 3.3G Oct 1 12:58 toto
One way that I know to set a limit on file size, is the option fsize
in /etc/security/limits.conf. If I add to this file
pfhonore hard fsize 10000
then (after logout and login as pfhonore)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=toto bs=1M count=3300
File size limit exceeded
$ ls -la toto
-rw-r--r-- 1 pfhonore dapsap 10240000 Oct 1 13:02 toto
> I verified that this is possible on redhat9. I took a quick glance
> in the kernel configuration but could not find a switch for large file
> support.
> Is this a problem that can be solved, a feature or what?
>
> Thanks, Stefano Stalio
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Pierre-Francois Honore <[log in to unmask]>
