Hai there, I have a vmware image of 7 GB which I want to backup on my usb hdd (40GB). However during the copy of the image from my hdd to the usb hdd, I get the error message "File size limit exceeded" Anyone got a tweak or solution to help me backup my image ? chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$cp rawhide.vmdk /media/disk/ File size limit exceeded chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 8189 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 8189 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com