smbfs is part of the Linux kernel and not Samba, and may not support large files. The official answer to this question is "use smbclient". Personally, I find split to be a great way to manage tar files.
Example. tar -cz data/ | split -b 1024m - /mnt/share/bckp/bckp.tar.gz. To untar the archive: cat /mnt/share/bckp/* | tar -xz On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:53:48AM -0600, Adam Williams wrote: > Is there a way in samba to create files greater then 2GB in size? I'm > tarring some stuff to a samba share (from one linux server to another, > share mounted using smbmount) and I get an error "File size limit > exceeded" and the size of the file is 2147483647 bytes. Is there anyway > to create files larger then 2GB on a samba mounted share? If so, how? > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
