Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:55:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:55:27 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:26375 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:54:40 -0400 Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6 To: timtas@dplanet.ch (Tim Tassonis) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:37 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Tim Tassonis" at Oct 24, 2001 05:45:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm using a Red Hat 6.2 system with glibc 2.1.3 (glibc-2.1.3-22), the > latest for Red Hat 6.2. Switching to 7.x would mean to upgrade the whole > system, I guess I can't just take the glibc rpm out of 7.x and everything > still runs fine? > > So that means I'm really fucked? glibc 2.1.x has minimal support for 64bit file size handling. You probably need to build 64bit aware tools. You might also be hitting a device bug that seems to be in Linus kernel where devices are inheriting the file size limit of the underlying fs the /dev node is on. However I thought that was long fixed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/