on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:31:51AM +0800, csj (csj@mindgate.net) wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2001 08:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Side question: are the GNU utilities afflicted by the 2 GB limit? > > > Can dd properly handle 2GB+ files. > > > > Easy to test: > > > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=4200000 > > > > Fails on my sysstem: > > > > [karsten@ego:karsten]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 > > count=4200000 dd: writing `bigfile': File too large > > 2097152+0 records in > > 2097151+0 records out > > So, okay, how do we fix it? It is it a kernel or a glibc problem? I'm > running 2.4.16 and unstable libc6 (rebuilt for woody). I don't know. I'd Google or file a bug / wishlist on dd if Google didn't show much. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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