diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/RetriableFileCopyCommand.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/RetriableFileCopyCommand.java
index 408919549c..6404e85661 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/RetriableFileCopyCommand.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/RetriableFileCopyCommand.java
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ public class RetriableFileCopyCommand extends RetriableCommand {
       if (!source.isSplit()) {
         DistCpUtils.compareFileLengthsAndChecksums(source.getLen(), sourceFS,
                 sourcePath, sourceChecksum, targetFS,
-                targetPath, skipCrc, source.getLen());
+                targetPath, skipCrc, offset + bytesRead);
       }
       // it's not append or direct write (preferred for s3a) case, thus we first
       // write to a temporary file, then rename it to the target path.