Re: [SLUG] LARGE files...

2001-01-18 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:02:45PM +1100, Umar Goldeli wrote: > My brain may have stopped, but is there a way to create files under Linux > (on a 32 bit platform) greater than 2Gb? Maybe, depending upon your kernel version, and if 2.2.x, whether you've installed the appropriate patches. A quick

Re: [SLUG] LARGE files...

2001-01-18 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:03:07PM +1100, Umar Goldeli wrote: > Greetings, > > My brain may have stopped, but is there a way to create files under Linux > (on a 32 bit platform) greater than 2Gb? > > If I were to take a dd of /dev/hda1 and dump it to a file to mount later > via loopback and the

[SLUG] LARGE files...

2001-01-18 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings, My brain may have stopped, but is there a way to create files under Linux (on a 32 bit platform) greater than 2Gb? If I were to take a dd of /dev/hda1 and dump it to a file to mount later via loopback and the /dev/hda1 slice is larger than 2Gb.. what does one do? Danke muchly.. //