OT: Large files shrinking in Linux?

[David Renström]

Hi,

I see that I have a quite old 2.4.26 version of the Linux kernel on 
this computer on which I don't run Linux very often. Are you saying 
that the problem with large files has been fixed in 2.6?

Regards,
/David R.
At 13:01 2007-02-27, you wrote:
>Do you use a recent version of linux kernel?
>
>I have seen message on linux-kernel in 2002 describing exactly your
>problem, but I believe it has been fixed long ago.
>
>What
>cat /proc/version
>on your system reports?
>
>Wojtek
>
>
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, David [iso-8859-1] Renström wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:27:23 +0100
> > From: "David [iso-8859-1] Renström" <david at davidrenstrom.com>
> > Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: OT: Large files shrinking in Linux?
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Excuse me for asking a question which is a little bit off-topic. I
> > recently wanted to transfer a 2,9 GB file from a DVD+R disc to my
> > Linux partition. The problem was that the file seemed to be no larger
> > than about 11 MB! I finally had to boot into DOS, copy the file to a
> > FAT32 partition and then boot into Linux and move the file to the
> > Linux partition. Why is this? I mounted the DVD+R as ISO9660, was
> > this wrong? It appears to have been working before.
> >
> > Regards,
> > /David R.

/David R.
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