Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!motstk!tore
From: tore@motorola.se (Tore Fahlstroem)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: V/AT2.3 Hard Disk File Size Limit?
Message-ID: <644@motstk.se>
Date: 27 Feb 90 11:42:51 GMT
References: <8815@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: tore@motstk.UUCP (Tore Fahlstroem)
Organization: Motorola Ab Stockholm Sweden
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In article <8815@wpi.wpi.edu> markc@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.