Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:37 +0100 (BST)

> 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.

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