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Hi Klaus,
We saw a similar error in August 2004 on an AIX system, but it turned out to
have nothing to do with netCDF. The problem then occurred when trying to write
a file a litle larger than 2 Gbytes on a file system not configured for large
file offsets.
You could test if this is the problem you're seeing by invoking the following
Unix commands in a writable directory on the same file system on which you are
trying to write a netCDF file:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000000 count=3000 of=foo
ls -l foo
rm foo
which should write a 3 GByte file named "foo" in the current directory, verify
its size, and remove it.
If that's not the problem, please let us know.
--Russ
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DKO-629995
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed