Can't copy giant file (*not* ULIMIT problem)

[Tony Becker]

>From article <1991May04.023545.535 at crom2.uucp>, by jim at crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller):
> 
>      I can't copy a 24-meg file without getting it truncated to 16 megs.
> 
> My ULIMIT is 73728 512-byte blocks, which should allow me to write a 36 mb
> file; and anyway I'm doing this copying as root and root should be able to
> write a file as big as the filesystem will hold, no matter what the ULIMIT is.
> So it must be some other limit that I'm bumping into.
> 

  1) swap space (for cp) ???

  2) largest contiguous free disk space ???

  what os configuration is this?
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tony ,....