How do I access files greater than 2GB from a Samba share?
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Samba shares that are mounted using smbmount
(which internally uses mount -t smbfs
) uses the smbfs.o
kernel module. This module does not support file sizes greater than 2 GB. So any manipulation done to a file greater than 2GB will fail with a 'file size limit exceeded
' error.
In addition, the server that is being mounted with sm...
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