There is no such animal as RedHat 9.1 RedHat 9.0 shipped with the 2.4.21 kernel (patched to hell as part of the RedHat Way(tm)) Also, google is your friend: There's a limitation in the smbfs driver in that kernel that doesn't allow files larger than 2 GB. http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-July/070033.html -- jeremy On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:49:49 -0600, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:32:34AM -0600, Larry Pint wrote: > > Does anybody have any ideas as to why I'm hitting this limitation? Does > > "mount" limit you to 2 Gb file sizes? I doubt tar has that limitation. > > (Does it?) > > What kernel are you running? Older kernels (2.4.xx and > earlier?) had this limitation, but I would have guessed that the > default kernel for Red Hat 9.1 would have been a 2.6 kernel. > > Also, what filesystem are you running on the XP box? XP defaults > to ntfs, but if you are using vfat, it has the 2GB limit as well. > > -- > Jim Crumley | > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >