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Re: df incorrectly handles volumes > 4TB


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: df incorrectly handles volumes > 4TB
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:10:16 +0100
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Most likely, then, the bug is not in "df" itself.  I'd look for bugs
> in the underlying C library, or operating system, or file system, etc.
> 4.5 TB is just over 2**30 * 4096 bytes, so perhaps your file system
> can't handle more than 2**30 blocks for some reason.

<http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html> says that Linux 2.4.x or Linux
2.6.x without CONFIG_LPD can only handle block devices/file systems of 2TB
maximum on 32 bit platforms.

Andreas.

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