Wget "File size limit exceeded(core dumped)"
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Oct 9 22:14:52 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 03:10 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:02 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
> > wget isn't the problem. ext2 in RH9 has a 2GB file size limit:
> >
> > http://forums.theplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=8171&sid=a82cc5dd9da773ebb5dcdf4a95d2ebf9
> >
> > Download the CD iso images, upgrade one system to FC5 then use it to
> > get the DVD image.
>
> Hmm, hadn't heard that before. I wonder if changing a partition to a
> different filesystem, to download a big file, would be a quicker
> solution?
Earlier versions of wget (such as that on RH9) weren't compiled with
the "bigfiles" option, so 2GB is the file limit (2^31). Get a later
version of wget and the problem should go away.
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