Du Limited To 2gb?

[dingetje]

See this thread on my own forum <a href='http://dingetje.homeip.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=564' target='_blank'>http://dingetje.homeip.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=564</a>

it seems du in my utils_1.1_dingetje package cannot handle files or a total file size > 2Gb!

I've tried compiling a newer version but that also failed due to large integer definitions that are not understood by the ancient C-compiler of zipslack 3.9.

Does anyone know a tool that is able to locate large files?

[Lightning]

As I recall the file size limitation is actually a lib5 limitation, so I am not sure this problem can be resolved easily. But "justdave" is the person to really answer this question because he has explored this issue in some other aplications.

[justdave]

There should not be any files over 2gb. This is a limitation of libc5 and could be overcome with the addition of another set of read/write calls. It's something that I have given up on because it looked much too complex. Although it could probably be done, it would increase the size of many binaries and therefore was not considered a good idea for FREESCO.

Files on FAT filesystems may have other limits. I was under the impression that the original FAT filesystem could only support disk/file limits of 2gb. In any event, I recommend using ext2 for any FREESCO systems running on hard disk.

If this problem occurs with ext2 then we should at least take a look at it to see if it can be fixed. Maybe Lightning can reproduce this anomaly and get some more information.