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[Jeromy Keloway]

Good afternoon

What I have to say is a little bit... hard to believe.
But I think I found a "bug" in the Shell-Command "cp". The command goes into a 
endless loop when I do the following:


1) Mount a partition with the filesystem "ext3" ("/media/EXT3drive")

2) Mount a partition with the filesystem "fat32" ("/media/FAT32drive")

3) Generate a file on the ext3-System with a filesize > 4GB

4) Try to copy this file from /media/EXT3drive to /media/FAT32drive with the 
following command: "cp -urv /media/EXT3drive/4GBfile.img 
/media/FAT32drive/4GBfile.img"

5) The file will be transfered until the filesize reached the 4GB limit. When 
the file has the maximum size that is possible on FAT32, it stop growing and cp 
is waiting forever to complet this file(wait about 48h -> nothing happens).


What cp should do:

Check the filesystem on the target partition before the transfer begins and 
inform the user about any problems OR interrupt the transfer of this file and 
write a log/inform the user.

Thanks for your attention

Jeromy
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