rsync's "value to large" error.

[jw schultz]

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:03:58PM +0800, Leaw, Chern Jian wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I'm trying to transfer a list of files within a filesystem to another filesystem. I've used the option:
> # rsync -avzol --progress /wp05/global/FCSI/WP_RLS05/rundir/ /nfs_proj/global/WP/ 
> 
> However, it had produced the error below:
> building file list ... global/FCSI/WP_RLS05/rundir/wp_celtic_max_fullwarn.tcl.log: Value too large to be stored in data type
> 
> # du -sk wp_celtic_max.tcl.log
> 4       wp_celtic_max.tcl.log
> 
> # file wp_celtic_max.tcl.log
> wp_celtic_max.tcl.log:  commands text
> 
> May I know what is the cause of this problem? What does the error message "Value too large to be stored in data type" mean? 
> 
> How do I solve such an error?  
> 
> The destination filesystem have been created with a sufficiently large diskspace to accomodate the source data. 
> 
> Could someone kindly help me out?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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