> > What version of glibc?
> 
> It's whatever Debian unstable is currently using:
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep libc
> ii  libc6          2.2.5-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii  libc6-dev      2.2.5-12       GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
> ...

running the same library here, I can create 3GB files no problem. I'm on
ext3, tho.
do you have any other partitions with a different filesystem that you can
try creating large files on?

also, try running 'ulimit -a', and see what it says for 'file size'.

Carl Soderstrom
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
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