On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:17:43PM -0800, 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? > > > > -Nix Fan. >
nostromo:tobiasu$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1 count=1 seek=$(bc -e '512*(2^34-1)' -e quit) && ls -l test && uname -a 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (3021 bytes/sec) -rw-r--r-- 1 tobiasu tobiasu 8.0T Jan 10 23:46 test OpenBSD nostromo.tmux.lan 4.2 GENERIC#638 i386 Maybe you want to be a little more specific?
