V/AT2.3 Hard Disk File Size Limit?

Tore Fahlstroem tore at motorola.se
Tue Feb 27 22:42:51 AEST 1990


In article <8815 at wpi.wpi.edu> markc at wpi.wpi.edu (Mark B. Cohen) writes:
>I keep encountering what appears to be an intrinsic file
>size limit on hard disk files:  Any attempt by any program
>to write a file larger than 1,228,800 bytes fails.

That is how SVR2 works.  Use ulimit in sh(1) to specify the file size limit
in number of blocks. (a block is 512 bytes).  Only root may raise the
ulimit.

You can also change the ulimit parameter in the kernel.



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