Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:50:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Invalid file sizes reported Message-ID: <20010612105009.G26626@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from vega@rhubarb.custard.org on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:59:49AM +0100 On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:59:49AM +0100, Lee wrote: >I have the latest installs of cygwin. I have a directory that contains >12gb of data. 6gb is a set of database files and the other 6gb is a tar of >those files. When I type ls -al in that directory, the file size of the >tar file is reported as 18,446,744,071,720,454,144 which is somewhat >larger than my hard drive capacity. Windows correctly reports the file >size as 6,600,837,120. Is this a problem with cygwin? Cygwin only uses 32 bit file sizes and offsets. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple