# Re: large file support?

- From: Jerry Van Baren \<hidden\>
- Date: 2003-07-31 13:00:22 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2003/07/9389194
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2003/07/9389194/t.md

```text

dd if=/dev/zero of=majorbigfile bs=1M count=2049

get a beer and wait ;-)

gvb


At 01:37 PM 7/31/2003 -0400, wd@denx.de wrote:

>In message [ref] you wrote:
> >
> > how could I find out if the kernel and the glibc I am using will
> > correctly supprot large files (>2GB)?
>
>         char buf[4096];
>         for (;;)
>                 write (fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
>
>:-)
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Wolfgang Denk
>
>--
>Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
>Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87  Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88  Email: wd@denx.de
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>                       -- Tom Christiansen in 375bd509@cs.colorado.edu
>


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