On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote:
>I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our
>RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive.
>
>Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I
>thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files. So I tried to ftp
>the file over using the built-in NT ftp client and FTPd--same problem. I
>then started an FTP server on the NT box and tried pulling the file onto
>the Linux machine. It also died at 2147482472 bytes.
>
>Is there an issue trying to copy files larger than 2 gigs? Is there a
>switch I can throw somewhere that will change this behavior?
>
>I tried searching the RedHat website support section but it appears to be
down.
>
Terry:
I do not remember exactly but I think that the maximum file size depends
on the number of blocks allocated to the file. If you format the drive with a
bigger block size, you can have a file greater than 2 GB.
To do that, read man mke2fs
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