OT: Large files shrinking in Linux?

[Wojtek.Pilorz]

Do you use a recent version of linux kernel?

I have seen message on linux-kernel in 2002 describing exactly your 
problem, but I believe it has been fixed long ago.

What 
cat /proc/version
on your system reports?

Wojtek


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, David [iso-8859-1] Renström wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:27:23 +0100
> From: "David [iso-8859-1] Renström" <david at davidrenstrom.com>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: OT: Large files shrinking in Linux?
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> Excuse me for asking a question which is a little bit off-topic. I 
> recently wanted to transfer a 2,9 GB file from a DVD+R disc to my 
> Linux partition. The problem was that the file seemed to be no larger 
> than about 11 MB! I finally had to boot into DOS, copy the file to a 
> FAT32 partition and then boot into Linux and move the file to the 
> Linux partition. Why is this? I mounted the DVD+R as ISO9660, was 
> this wrong? It appears to have been working before.
> 
> Regards,
> /David R.