>>A friend of mine has created a 7.75 GB .mpeg file.
>> He wishes to transfer it to another machine.
>> We failed to copy it to another hard disk or another partition on the
>>same hdd.
>> Windows XP says that there is not enough space on the hdd (even
though
>>the target partition has more than enough 20 GB free space).
>> I booted the machine with Konppix 4 and mounted the partitions and
>>tried to copy the file. Copying process did start but stopped after
it
>>had copied about 53% of the file saying that maximum file limit has
>>been reached.
>> Now I am going to dd the entire partition (20 GB) onto another hdd.
>> The m/c is an AMD64 3000+ on an RS232 motherboard with 1 GB of RAM.
>>How much time is expected to be taken by the process?
>> Any guesses?
>It depends on the filesystem. For example file size limitation for an
ext2 filesystem (with 1kb block) it is 2GB. I guess >it is same for ext3
also.
>Where do you have the mpeg file now and where do you want to transfer
it?
-logu
Check the value of the max file size parameter in ulimit ( ulimit -a as
root will show all the parameters )
ulimit -f is the parameter for the max filesize that can be created
by the shell
-Sanjay
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