Thanks for the many answers so far !
I just came back from vaccation and was not able to answer any earlier.
It's correct that 32bit-systems use signed ints as position-parameters in fseek() for...

I've recently tried to create an image from a DVD under Linux.
I wrote the image file to an vfat (fat32) partition previously mounted. The copying process stopped by about 2GB, the former...

This topic-subtree has pretty matured from the initial question whether samba does move files to a recycle-bin or not to a discussion about redhat 8.0 ... so I will post something else about redhat...