Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com> [2002-09-07 18:30:55 +0200]: > Does Woody handle files over 2GB? Or any other debian distro? Yes. At least the 2.4 kernel version of woody. You can always try it and deduce this yourself. The simplest way is to use 'dd'. time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/largefile bs=1M count=2560 ls -lh /tmp/largefile -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 2.5G Sep 7 11:46 /tmp/largefile Expect that to take a few minutes because unless you have a lot of memory it will be running at disk drive speeds. On my machine that took 45 seconds and left a 2.5 GB file. The largefile boundary is 2^31 bits or 2 GB so anything that can produce files bigger than that is large file capable. Bob
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