On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 at 07:43PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > running the same library here [libc6 2.2.5], 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? I made a 5GB file on ext3 no problem. Okay, now I'm confused! > also, try running 'ulimit -a', and see what it says for 'file size'. It says unlimited. I'll poke around some more and see if I can figure out why my reiser partition is unhappy. Thanks for the help, though... Dan