On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, copying a file over 2Gb results in the error "File size limit exceeded"
Issue
- On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, copying a file over 2Gb results in the error "File size limit exceeded":
# ls -lh filename.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38M Nov 29 2008 filename.dat
# cp filename.dat tmp.dat
File size limit exceeded
# ulimit -f
1024
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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