on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:31:51AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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).

I don't know.  I'd Google or file a bug / wishlist on dd if Google
didn't show much.

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