Moving a 40Gb file truncates it to 5Gb

Question

I want to move a file called cpmbackup.tar.gz from the folder /home/username to /home/username/public_html (and afterwards change the permission to 644 so it can be downloaded from another server with ssh wget URL.tar.gz).

But, after I move this file to public_html, only 5 or 6 gig of the 40Gig file have been moved.

I have ssh and Cpanel

Answer 1

Based on your comment about using the copy command in cpanel I would suggest you are probably running out of diskspace.

You mentioned you do have ssh access available and I an unfamiliar with cpanel so if you can ssh into the server you should check your diskspace with the following command:

df -h

There is also a possibility that you are running out of inodes although unlikely since it is a single tar file.

df -i

If you have ssh access you will be much better off moving the file instead of trying to copy it.

mv /home/username/cpmbackup.tar.gz /home/username/public_html/cpmbackup.tar.gz

This will happen almost instantaneously instead of waiting and hour or more for it to copy. It also will not use up any additional disk space.