On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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ulimit shows no limit. The thing john recommended showed both large
files and huge files. <br>
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Everything seems fine. I gotta be doing something simple but wrong. I
know I had this working on another machine before.</div></blockquote><div><br clear="all">Did you try creating a 2GB file with something other than tar and see if that works?<br><br>Something like:<br><br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/somedir/somefile bs=1048576 count=2049<br>
</div></div><br>This writes 1MB blocks 2049 times (just above 2GB).<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>