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The solution has arrived. |
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Thanks Richard for the cifs tip, to lay it out :- |
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mount.smbfs //NEWSTU/genstubackup /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup |
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=> This command has a limit on file transfer of 2Gb |
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mount.cifs //NEWSTU/genstubackup /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup |
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=> This command has been tested with a 3.7Gb file and transfered without fault |
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Many thanks for the help people |
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stu |
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> On 9/13/05, Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > FYI |
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> > Will try this CIFS later on |
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> > stu |
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> > |
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- |
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> > From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> |
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> > Date: Sep 13, 2005 4:57 AM |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> > >Yes I am using samba to connect to the XP box as you suggested. |
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> > >The error report arrived via mail from a cron, prehaps the garbling of |
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> > >the message occured there? |
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> > > |
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> > >Anyway thanks again for responses, I usually clean up /tmp after the |
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> > >script runs so I made the assumption later on that the error was at |
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> > >the point of creation of the file and not during the cp, so as a way |
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> > >of confirming this I have set it off again to make the very large tgz |
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> > >and then try too cp it via samba transport to the XP box. [will run |
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> > >overnight now] |
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> > >If it works ie. if the full file is created [waiting in /tmp] then it |
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> > >is samba or if not then a post back to the shell limit. Should know by |
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> > >morning. |
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> > >An interesting chase regardless and if it is samba then will have to |
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> > >split the tgz. |
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> > Mounting it as a "smbfs" filesystem (which does not support file larger |
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> > than 2G) is almost certainly the problem. Try mounting the XP box as a |
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> > "cifs" (mount.cifs) filesystem and you should have better luck. |
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> > |
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> > -Richard |
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> > -- |
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> > -- |
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> > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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> > binary, those who don't" |
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> > --Unknown |
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> "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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> binary, those who don't" |
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> --Unknown |
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"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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binary, those who don't" |
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