I figured it out. In one case the command was run under bourne shell in the other case it was tcsh. Turns out that tcsh is not compiled with large file support on Redhat 7.x. >>>>> "JS" == Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> writes: JS> I've got an ext3 filesystem that I'm able to write 15GB+ files on just JS> fine. I enabled quotas to keep us from running out of disk space by adding JS> usrquota,grpquota to the mount options and created the appropriate JS> quotas. Now file sizes appear to be limited to 2GB. Is this a bad JS> interaction between ext3 and quota? JS> -- JS> Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net JS> For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels JS> nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any JS> powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all JS> creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that JS> is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 JS> _______________________________________________ JS> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota JS> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org JS> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list