Re: BUG: cp command stops at 2,097,152KB

[Jim Meyering]

"Bryan Rood" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am in dire straights.  No matter what file I copy to my samba share, cp 
> won't copy more than 2,097,152KB.  Can you help me with this or point me to 
> somewhere that explains why?

Your coreutils package may have been built without largefile support
or your destination file system may have a maximum file size of 2GB.

Providing more details would help:

  the type of system you are running the `cp' command on:
  if the destination disk is not on the same machine,
    then what type of system hosts the remote disk:
  the destination disk uses what file system:
  version of cp (cp --version):

Please try using rsync instead of cp and report the result.