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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: UFS file size limits < 67108000
Date: 10 Jul 1997 15:53:11 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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:In article <7a7cd$e10a.ea@NEWS2>, Michael Jung <mikej@finall.com> wrote:
:>I have a UFS file system where I cannot create files larger
:>than approx 67MB.
:>
:>"/etc/fstab"
:>/dev/sd0s3e /pub ufs rw 1 1
:>
:>"df -k"
:>/dev/sd0s3e 7320380 5398802 1335948 80% /pub
:>
:>
:>FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP #0: Fri Jun 27 09:06:13 EDT 1997
:> mikej@charon.finall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CHARON
:>ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:19:0
:>ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
:>
:>
:>I have never run into this before - clues anyone?
:>
:>TIA --mikej
:>Michael Jung
:>mikej@finall.com
Uh huh... both FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0 stupidly set a filesize resource
limit in /etc/login.conf.
Edit /etc/login.conf and change all instances of 'filesize=.....'
to 'filesize=infinity', then log out and log in again.
-Matt