File Size Limit Exceeded?

[George Toft]

Tyler Hall wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I tried to FTP as root to another box on my local lan,  I needed to grab
> this 3.0 gig file, and it stopped at 2 gigs, saying "File Size Limit
> Exceeded"  Is there anyway to change that to 4 gigs or whatever?  I need
> to get these 2 gig limit.
> 
> I'm running Redhat 7.2 if that matters.
> 
> Tyler Hall
> 
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Reformat the drive and use a larger (4k) block size.  Logical Volume
Management may help out.

This page explains why (1/2 way down "I need to have files bigger 
than 2GB. What's the big problem?"):
http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/fs.html


George