Well, In the mean time I tried it and it failed; probably coreutils I am using was build without this flag. (coreutils-7.2-4.fc11.i586). I will try to build coreutils with this flag and then perform that cp. Rgs, Mark On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Mark Ryden wrote: >> Hello, >> Can "cp" under ext3 partition copy files which are greater than 4GB ? >> (the source file and the destination are on the same ext3 partition, and there >> is of course enough space) >> Is there a limit on the size of a file which can be copied thus ? > > It should, as long as /bin/cp is compiled with O_LARGEFILE support. > > - Ted > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users