Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

[Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:

> Well, lets see:
> 
> kadamski@krypton:~$ cat /dev/zero >xxx
> cat: write error: File too large
> kadamski@krypton:~$ ls -l xxx
> -rw-r--r--   1 kadamski users    2147482624 Jan 25 12:02 xxx
> kadamski@krypton:~$ cat /proc/version 
> Linux version 2.0.33 (root@krypton) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #6 Sun Dec 28 23:08:15 EST 1997
> kadamski@krypton:~$ df .
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sda2            3966376 2813561   947608     75%   /
> 
> I remember doing this in 2.0.29 and getting only 1G for files, so
> something changed in the newer kernel.
> 
> Krzysztof


I don't think it is the kernel (unless, it's due to a specific
configuration option in the kernel?)  I tried it on 2.0.33 and 2.1.78,
same result on both:

lilu# ls -l xxx
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1073741824 Jan 25 15:36 xxx
lili# uname -a
Linux lili.eecs.umich.edu 2.1.78 #1 Wed Jan 21 06:44:08 EST 1998 i686 unknown

Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue is and how to fix the
problem for those of us stuck at the 1GB limit?



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