Large file transfer problem

Hello Everyone,

I can't transfer a large file (~15GB TAR Archive) from one linux machine to another via FTP.

I have tried the following:

1) Normal FTP the whole 15GB. This stops when it gets to about 2GB and doesn't go any further.

2) Split the 15GB file into 500MB pieces using the split command and then transfer all the pieces over one by one. This works but when it's time to join them all back up again into the original 15GB file, using cat, I get an error saying that the file is too large (this error happens when the file gets to a size of about 2GB).

I have checked things like quotas, disk space, permissions, etc.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Make sure that the filesystem where you are trying to transfer/combine the file is largefile enabled. Large files are files that are over 2GB in size.

The 'mkfs -m' command will show you what options were used to create the filesystem, though I do not know how exactly largefile support is handled in Linux.