Comments | ouij: End of an era

ouij

End of an era

Feb 05, 2008 12:17

I have seen the end of 32-bit addressing, my friends, and let me tell you, it's not pretty.

My default e-mail client, Evolution, is great, but it keeps my incoming mail in a single mbox file. (for you *nix nerds, by default this is at ~/.evolution/mail/local/Over the years, as I've migrated from computer to computer, I have brought my archived e- ( Read more... )

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barktwiggs February 5 2008, 20:10:00 UTC

Sounds like a job for fdupes

BTW, did you get and delete my prior posting with my email addie?

ouij February 7 2008, 20:00:19 UTC

gotten and deleted. Expect a long e-mail soon.

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ouij February 6 2008, 17:57:35 UTC

I don't know. All I know was that I had a > 2 GiB mbox file that I simply couldn't touch--not with evolution, not with anything I had on the system.

Booting to the AMD 64 kernel was no problem though; I was able to get to the file and delete the duplicate e-mails; the file is now small enough to mess with in ubuntu IA32.

Are you sure it's the kernel? ext_49859 February 12 2008, 18:23:39 UTC

I was just reading the ext2 Wikipedia article (I have to do a paper on file systems), and it says, "There are also many userspace-programs with a lack of being able to handle files with a size above 2 GB." Maybe the problem is Evolution, not the kernel.