> I've mounted a samba share (smbfs), and tried to backup my files, to it. > I tried 3 methods, using file-roller GUI(creating tar on mounted > drive), normal 'cp -R' method, and rsync. All of them failed in > between, because some (2) files are very large in size, 2.9GB, and > 4.3GB. > What could possibly be the mistake? It usually gives some message > like, "Large File Size", or something, rsync just fails, with some > error. >
Google gave me this. http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/alt.os.linux/2006-02/msg00381.html Looks like SMB does not mount with LargeFileSupport (LFS) by default. Mounting with 'lfs' option might help <snip> So either : mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o lfs other-options or mount -t cifs //server/share /mountpoint -o options </snip> - Jay _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
