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Re: ls Mis-reporting size of large files
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Greg McCrory" <greg at coolbrew dot com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 03:55:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: ls Mis-reporting size of large files
- References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030503213132.019f90d0@mail.cafeaulait.net>
> For files greater than 2gb, ls is mis-reporting the size.
> ...
> cygwin's ls reports:
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 gmc Administ 18446744071805532160 May 3 10:22
bigfile.tar
>
>
> What is that, some 18+ exabytes? I can only dream of a hard drive that big
:-)
Cygwin doesn't currently support files larger than ~2GB, although support
for large files is being worked on.
Elfyn
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