On Thursday, October 13, 2005 @ 2:54 AM, Anders Norrbring wrote:
On 2005-10-13 12:44 Albert wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Anders Norrbring wrote:
I was kinda surprised... I mounted a Windows XP share with smbfs, then I started to copy a 2.8GB file from the Linux box to the Windows share.
After a while I got "File limit size exeeded". Where did that come from? Neither one of the systems has a limit of 2GB...
Maybe whatever (cp, dd, cpio, rsync etc.) you used to copy the file with had a limit?
I had the same issue.
The problem is with smbfs not allowing files larger than 2GB. If my memory serves me correct FAT32 file systems can only hold a maximum file size of 2GB, this was possibly the reasoning behind it.
The times I managed to copy the file to a Windows share, the file size on the Windows machine was always 2GB.
Albert
Then I can't understand why I can mount a samba share on the Windows box and copy 20+ GB files without any problems, but not the other way around?
I tried both mv and cp.
If I mount a Samba share and try to do a "cp" of a large file to it, it craters at app. 2G. Always has. Luckily, the share has an FTP serer, so I just ftp to it and do a "send". Greg Wallace