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# 1  
Old 07-11-2008
Creating > 2GB file

I am trying to execute a database dump to a file, but can't seem to get around the 2GB file size. I have tried setting the user limit to -1, but no luck.
# 2  
Old 07-11-2008
did you set the fsize attribute to -1?

what does ulimit show?

Code:
ulimit -Ha
ulimit -Sa

# 3  
Old 07-12-2008
I assume you are running jfs and not jfs2 - so you have to change the logical volumes themselves to allow filesizes above 2 GB
Rgds
N.
# 4  
Old 07-13-2008
Frank, I set the hard file size attribute to -1, and it worked
zxmaus, what is the command to set the jfs file size? I looked in smat but couldn't find it.
Thanks alot to both of you for your help.
# 5  
Old 07-24-2008
vi /etc/security/limits
fsize -1

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