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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
cc: Jason Tackaberry <tack@auc.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs 
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:21:13 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> said:
> On Nov 20, 2001  11:02 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > I just installed a shiny new 80GB disk as primary slave and decided to
> > upgrade to 2.4.14+ext3 patch.  It appears that with this kernel, and
> > also with 2.4.15-pre7, when trying to mkfs partitions greater than 2GB,
> > I get "file size limit exceeded" and mkfs aborts.  I can successfully
> > mkfs partitions <= 2GB.
> > 
> > I do not have this problem with 2.4.7; all works well.  Wondering if the
> > difference was ext3, I tried compiling 2.4.15-pre7 without ext3 support
> > and the same problem occured.
> 
> Several people have reported problems like this also.  What happens is
> that if you are logged on as a user, then su to root, it will fail.  If
> you log in directly as root, it will work.

This kind of differences (direct root login vs su) usualy are due to
different environment variable settings.

Just US$0.02
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