The solution has arrived. Thanks Richard for the cifs tip, to lay it out :- mount.smbfs //NEWSTU/genstubackup /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup => This command has a limit on file transfer of 2Gb mount.cifs //NEWSTU/genstubackup /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup => This command has been tested with a 3.7Gb file and transfered without fault Many thanks for the help people stu > On 9/13/05, Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI > > Will try this CIFS later on > > > > stu > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sep 13, 2005 4:57 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > > > > Stuart Howard wrote: > > > > >Yes I am using samba to connect to the XP box as you suggested. > > >The error report arrived via mail from a cron, prehaps the garbling of > > >the message occured there? > > > > > >Anyway thanks again for responses, I usually clean up /tmp after the > > >script runs so I made the assumption later on that the error was at > > >the point of creation of the file and not during the cp, so as a way > > >of confirming this I have set it off again to make the very large tgz > > >and then try too cp it via samba transport to the XP box. [will run > > >overnight now] > > >If it works ie. if the full file is created [waiting in /tmp] then it > > >is samba or if not then a post back to the shell limit. Should know by > > >morning. > > > > > >An interesting chase regardless and if it is samba then will have to > > >split the tgz. > > > > > > > > > > Mounting it as a "smbfs" filesystem (which does not support file larger > > than 2G) is almost certainly the problem. Try mounting the XP box as a > > "cifs" (mount.cifs) filesystem and you should have better luck. > > > > -Richard > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand > > binary, those who don't" > > > > --Unknown > > > > > -- > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand > binary, those who don't" > > --Unknown >
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