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Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit?
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:

> A quick test with truncate(1) shows that you can create sparse files
> up to 16TB in size.

???

$ truncate -s 8191G /tmp/foo.test
$ truncate -s 8192G /tmp/foo.test
truncate: /tmp/foo.test: File too large
$ uname -r
4.3-RELEASE
$ 

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