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-header

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: > > Mayb

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
l's header instead of your > /usr/src/linux/include/linux (2.4.3) To make sure this wasn't the case I did a #dpkg --force-depends -r libc6-dev so that there was no /usr/include/linux or /usr/include/asm . I then rebuilt and reinstalled libc6 and libc6-dev debs (no problems). >

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
instead of your /usr/src/linux/include/linux (2.4.3) So I think that for enable >2GB files you should copy all /usr/src/linux/include/linux to /usr/include/linux and then try to recompile glibc. Just my $0.02 []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man&#

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 h

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
g with dd > over here > are you logging the output of /dev/zero or what ? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 19:07 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: >2Gb files > > > H

>2Gb files

2001-04-10 Thread david . jackson
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 recompiled glibc (2.2.2-4) with a #apt-get --build source glibc then installed the