On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:26:50PM -0400, Dan Drake wrote:
> I thought this was no longer a problem as of the 2.4 kernels, but: I'm
> having problems creating a file larger than 2 gigabytes (2^31 bytes).

First thing to check is if resource limits are getting in your way.  You
can usually tell if this is happening if your process gets kills by a
signal.  

If you're running tcsh: limit
if you're running bash: ulimit -a

Nate