Hi all, I was just playing with two partitions (m: NTFS, x: FAT32) to check whether the 4GB limit is still there:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/m/size.test bs=100M count=47 47+0 Datens"atze ein 47+0 Datens"atze aus 4928307200 bytes (4.9 GB) copied, 290.58 seconds, 17.0 MB/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/x/size.test bs=100M count=47 dd: Schreiben von "/x/size.test": No space left on device 41+0 Datens"atze ein 40+0 Datens"atze aus 4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB) copied, 251.469 seconds, 16.7 MB/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 t636 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) 2005-05-25 19:38 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Obviously it is. Is this the expected behaviour? I thought using SP2 on XP eliminates this restriction. Can anybody explain this? Oliver. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/