Re: >2Gb files

[david.jackson@ogt.co.uk]

/dev/zero just provides a source of data eg
cat -A  < /dev/zero | head -c 20

I was using dd as a quick way of trying to create a large (>2GB) file.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> first of all, forgive me my ignorance, i wonder what you are doing with dd
> over here 
> are you logging the output of /dev/zero or what ? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david.jackson@ogt.co.uk [mailto:david.jackson@ogt.co.uk]
> Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 19:07
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: >2Gb files
> 
> 
> Hi, I'm looking for hints on using > 2GB files....
> 
> I'm using a 2.4.3 kernel-image compiled from debian kernel-source
> package. After installing the corresponding kernel-headers deb I
> created, I have recompiled glibc (2.2.2-4) with a
> #apt-get --build source glibc 
> then installed the created debs...
> #dpkg -i ./libc6-dev_2.2.2-4_i386.deb ./libc6_2.2.2-4_i386.deb
> ./locales_2.2.2-4_all.deb
> I then build fileutils,
> #apt-get -t testing --build source fileutils
> and install them,
> #dpkg -i ./fileutils_4.0.43-1_i386.deb
> 
> Unfortunately a
> #/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1024 count=3553600
> gives me a
> "File size limit exceeded"
> 
> I've tried this in ext2fs and reiserfs and have tried a --build
> source and install of their respective progs packages, recreation
> of filesystems but I still have the 2GB limit. 
> 
> Any ideas? What I should be checking?
> thanks,
> david
> 
> 
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