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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: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). -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
