Wget "File size limit exceeded(core dumped)"

[David G. Miller]

Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:

> Patrick Boutilier wrote: ...
>
>>> Output of the mount command?
>>    
>>
>
>OK, I read the quote. It's an ext3 fs, not ext2.
>
>I'll take my words back  :-) 
>
>But anyway, if if is rh9 system, it should be ext3 by default.
>
>The file system is not the problem, the wget program is.
>
>One should be able to use ftp to resume the download. It might hang
>at the end of the download, but whole file should be there, check
>with md5sum/sha1sum.
>
>Mogens
>
But we still need to see whether the partition is ext2 or ext3.  Lots of 
us stayed with the known ext2 when we installed RH9.

On the other hand, here are two links that point to the RH9 vintage of 
wget being the problem (2GB limit):

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2004-11/msg00091.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg06735.html

Cheers,
Dave

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