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From: L A Walsh <law@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Maximum size of ext2 files on ia32 is?
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John J Tobin wrote:> 
> I had the same problem awhile back it it was attributed to using
> outdated fileutils. I recommend getting new ones from www.gnu.org and
> seeing if that fixes the problem. It fixed it when I had a similar
> problem.
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	Hmmm.  I have a server at work installed from RH7.1 running 2.4.4.
I did a grep of many files into redirected into a file and that fails at
2G.  But my version of 7.2 Suse doesn't.  I take it this is a recent update
to the file utils?

-linda

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