FTP file limitation

[Francis Adekunle]

I am trying to ftp/transfer an 8GB file from my HP 10.20 box to my HP 11.00 box and it errors out at 2GB. How can I get around the 2GB size limitation?

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi Toni.
May sound just a bit silly, but have you activated the large file option on your target system ? The 2 GB filesize may point to that.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Toni:

In order to support files larger than 2GB, you must convert/enable 'largefiles' for the filesystem(s) for which you want to support them. To convert a filesystem to support largefiles, do:

/usr/sbin/fsadm -F hfs -o largefiles /dev/vgXX/rlvolX

Remember that the tar and cpio utilities cannot handle files that are larger than 2GB.

You should read the "HP-UX Large Files White Paper Version 1.4 (HP-UX 10.x, HP-UX 11.0)" available in PDF format too:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/10.x/index.html

...JRF...

[Ovidiu D. Raita]

POSIX standars limits the file size to 2GB. That's way tar and cpio are not supported for files larger than 2GB. It might be a FTP limitation too. If you don't succeed after you modify the file system options to -o largefiles a solution would be to split the file, ftp the pieces and then paste it back.

use
# split <- for splitting
# cat <- for pasting

Ovidiu

[Francis Adekunle]

Actually, i wasn't able to change the filesystem limitations with that command. I was however able to vi the fstab and then umount and mount the filesytem to pick up the new settings. Thanks everyone!