On 2008/01/10 14:17, Unix Fan wrote: > Does OpenBSD's base utilities support 64 bit I/O? > > I attempted to create a 8GB file using the "dd" application distributed with > OpenBSD 4.2, unfortunately it fails with: > > dd: count: Result too large > > Confused, I tried making the size smaller, and noticed it bails out at > exactly 4294967295 bytes, 4294967294 succeeds however.. > > dd: count: Undefined error: 0 > > What are my options?
Use a larger bs= so you can use a smaller count=. The limit you are bumping into is in the maximum size of arguments to dd.
