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Re: ls: file too big



On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:57:40PM +0000, Paul M Sargent wrote:
> I'm trying to ls a directory which has 2.7GB file in it. The directory is an
> automounted NFS directory.
> 
> [pauls@yevaud gxr01]$ ls -l
> ls: gxr01.tar: File too large
> 
> It then prints the rest of the directory, ignoring that file.
> 
> mount gives the directory as
> kyle:/usr2 on /.automount/kyle/root/usr2 type nfs (nosuid,nodev,dev=00000007)
> 
> Whats going on? I swear I've used local files bigger than this before.

on 32 bit archetectures there is a 2GB file size limit. this is
probably the problem.  

-- 
Ethan Benson


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