Use a filesystem that can hold larger files. It sounds like the external drive is using FAT32.
You are running into a filesize limit with Fat32 and not a limit with the cp or mv commands.
If you will just use the external drive to transfer the files to another computer or for a backup, you could use the split command to break it up. Then simply cat the files together redirecting the output to a file.
Last edited by jschiwal; 12-09-2007 at 08:35 AM.
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