filesystem question

[khilari]

Hi people, well somebody asked me this and i wanted to put this question up for u guys, that there is one filesystem with 10 gig free memory, and there is a file 3 gig. I have to copy that file onto the file system with the cp command. But i am getting errors, now what can the reason be of being unable to copy it over to the filesystem with enough free space using cp command.
Thanks

[Christian Tremblay · Accepted solution]

Your file system has to be created with the largefiles option on, otherwise you will not be able to write files > 2Gb

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
are you able to copy 2GB and then the cp fails ?
Check your /etc/fstab for this filesystem.
May have to enable largefile. See "man fsadm"
File system will have to come offline for this change.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Khilari,

You have to enable the largefile option to be able to do it.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Khilari,

This old thread will give you some detail on how to enable largefiles option:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1056373

Regards,

Jaime.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
have you got any feedback for the answers. Did they work?