Hi Tim, OK, there we had the problem. It was onto a FAT32 partition I was copying the file. Many thanks, Christian On 2009-08-09 at 11:01 Tim Chase wrote: >> I know that this has been up before, but I don't remember the >> solution to it. The cp command doesn't seem to be able to >> handle files larger than 4 gigabytes. How do I copy a file >> that is over 4 gigs? > >I believe the problem resides not with "cp" but rather the >filesystem types you're copying from/to. If you're trying to >copy to a FAT-32 partition, it has a max filesize of 4gb. Other >file-systems may/should have much larger limits on individual >file sizes. > >-tim > > > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list