Number of files during copy

[antonio montagnani]

2006/11/6, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net>:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:06 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > If I copy from my internal HD to my external USB HD a large number of
> > files (i.e. my photo archive, let me say 2000 files) not all files are
> > transferred.
> > Of course the backup is not reliable.....and I have to transfer by
> > sets of 40 files .
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> What FC version?
> Is it fully updated?
> What size are the files being transferred?
> What messages do you get?
>
> In earlier versions of Linux several utilities (and even the filesystem
> way back when) had a 2GB limit on functionality that was a feature of
> the 32bit operating system.  I believe that limit has been raised to
> several TB now.  It may be you are getting hit by something of that sort
> if using an older version of the OS.
>
>
> > Tnx
> >
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> >
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I forgot to tell that file dimensions were about 10 Mb each, and I
didn' t get any message at all. I realized that something was wrong
from the very different number of objects in directory list.

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Antonio Montagnani
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