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FILE COPY TROUBLE

I was using Knoppix 3.3 with smb client to copy an image file (3.4 GB) from a W2k server to my new notebook hard drive (the old one died).  I keep encountering problems.  Copying to fat32, I get an out of space error before the file is finished copying.  Copying to ext3 file system, it just keeps going until it fills the whole volume (20 GB).  Any ideas?

Posted by Patrick Copland on May 3, 2004 | 4 replies
Filed under: General

Comments:

01. May 5, 2004 at 11:36pm by Anthony:

Can’t say I’ve seen that before, but here’s a few (vague) suggestions.

The file-size limit on FAT32 filesystems is 4GB, so that doesn’t make sense.  And ext3 is a solid, extremely well-tested and widely-deployed filesystem, so I wouldn’t expect that you’re seeing a bug there.

Since you’re seeing the same behavior (a "3.4" GB image completely filling partitions larger than that) from two different filesystems, I’d suspect a problem with the file (it’s not really 3.4GB) or the transport mechanism.

02. May 6, 2004 at 02:18am by Juan S.:

I think that it is "NFS" problem not FAT32 FS; I heard that file size limit
exists in NFS. Win-->Linux with FTP will be a solution I think.

03. May 6, 2004 at 10:08am by Patrick Copland:

I am trying one more time with another distro. and then FTP (as per Juan S.).

Thanks for the advice.

04. May 9, 2004 at 12:02am by Patrick Copland:

FTP appeared to work better, but still didn’t give me a usable file.  I am manually reinstalling windows to download the file to a different partition and will then re-image.

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