Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-12 Thread david . jackson
Hi, thanks for reponses and just to inform A guy on devel mentioned that the glibc and fileutils in woody will work with large files out of the box. So I tried on another machine (single processor) which also has a testing/ unstable config and it did indeed work (on reiserfs on top of LVM

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:06:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 re

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Josh McKinney
Don't know if this helps too much either, but I am running unstable(sid) and >2GB files work just fine. On approximately Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:21:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Maybe you've received better

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer > my $0.02. Appreciated! > When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the > kernel's header? Well the debian glibc packaging is quite c

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer my $0.02. When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the kernel's header? I mean: it might be the case that gcc is using /usr/include/linux (2.2.18) for the kernel's header instead of your /usr/

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
Hi - I'm looking for a tale of success, suggestion of something to check, or a link to a more detailed recipe for > 2GB files on i386 using debian really. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > To be honest, i don't have the answer but i think this has allready been >

RE: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
1 10:25 To: Joris Lambrecht; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: >2Gb files /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 Lambrech

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
/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