Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:43:00 -0600 (CST) | From | DIPPE <> | Subject | Re: ext2 file sizes |
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Blankenship, Keith wrote: > I am having some difficulty with the ext2 file systems. I need to generate a > file that will be > 5 Gigabytes, and there appears to be a file size cap at > approximately 2 Gig. I am running what appears to be a version 2.0.36 > Kernel. Is there anything I can adjust, or do to increase the maximum file > size? Or is there a newer kernel that may work?
Yes, you can adjust your computer. I can only assume you're using IA32, which only allows for filesizes of 2**31 bytes. Switching to a 64-bit platform should solve your problems.
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