[TriLUG] tar-1.14 can't make large files

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> Try a test like this:
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1045876 count=1500

hmm. it's not tar then. I can't even create a file of 1.5G, but can create
750MB, and 1024MB. (I have plenty of free space, about 60G).

Does this mean that the disk hasn't been formattted to take large files? I
would have assumed with mke2fs from Nov 2002, that I would have been OK
(mke2fs was compiled against glibc-2.3.1). The disk is ext3 (formatted
with -j option). There are no options in mke2fs that talk about largefile
support, that I can see. I just took the defaults for mke2fs.

Joe

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