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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:50:41 +0200
From: Walter Hofmann <walterh@gmx.de>
To: Fred <fred@arkansaswebs.com>
Cc: Tony Hoyle <tmh@nothing-on.tv>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File System Limitations
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Fred wrote:

> glibc-2.2.2-10
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M
> 
> created file of 2147483647 bytes
> 
> [root@bits /a5]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./tgb count=4000 bs=1M
> File size limit exceeded (core dumped)

core dump???

My old dd terminated with an error in this case.

Do you have a file size limit set (ulimit -a)?

Walter