Hi,

> Ask your sysadmin about the format of the partition where your T
> drive is located. It will be either: FAT (which is a simulation of
> the Windows 16-bit format), ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS. Neither FAT nor
> ext2 can store files > 2 Gb.

He said his backup file was 8gb, so it cannot be FAT. Regarding ext2 I
have to correct you, ext2 fully supports files >2GB:
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
I have a 37GB test database on a ext2 partition and it's working without
problems.
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