On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>
> How big is this file?
> Linux does support files larger than 2gig; (the traditional 2^31
> limitation)
>
> Please send more info, like size of file, output/errors from ls or rm.
>
> -Russell
>
Well, after reformatting my test partition ( it is 6Gb only ) I did the
following:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=BIG_FILE bs=10M count=300
> df .
/dev/hdb1 6292648 3072144 3220504 49% /mnt/mnt1
> ls -l BIG_FILE
/bin/ls: BIG_FILE: Value too large for defined data type
> strace ls -l BIG_FILE
(...)
lstat("BIG_FILE", 0xbffffa88) = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for defi
ned data type)
>
When filesystem was created:
> /sbin/mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/hdb1
meta-data=/dev/hdb1 isize=256 agcount=8, agsize=196796 blks
data = bsize=4096 blocks=1574362, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=1200
realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
>
Unfortunately it is an IDE disk...
In real life I have to work with files 8G...
Thank You for attention, Russel.
G.
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