On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > What version of glibc? > > > > It's whatever Debian unstable is currently using: > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep libc > > ii libc6 2.2.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone > > ii libc6-dev 2.2.5-12 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea > > ... > > running the same library here, I can create 3GB files no problem. I'm on > ext3, tho. > do you have any other partitions with a different filesystem that you can > try creating large files on? Mentioning ext3 reminded me, there are two versions of ext2. So it depends on when you created it. If you created the paration with the newer versions of mke2fs you'll have the extended attributes, which allow big files. If not, you're stuck under 2GB. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39