Entries for /etc/sysctl.conf and file size limits

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:53:18PM -0500, Debbie Tropiano wrote:
> We're running kernel 2.6.6 and having issues with file size limits
> (on some of our systems, the users are not able to create files
> larger than 2G .. yes, we have very large files).  I've looked and
> looked but can't see where this is set (and I've already checked
> ulimit but those values are set at unlimited).

It's likely an application issue.  To verify that you can create a 2GB
file on the file system, simply do the following:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/u01/foo bs=1M count=2500 

That will create a 2.5GB file.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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