From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908481381F3 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 255CEE0997; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3C4FE0983 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id un4so4384416pbc.26 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:56:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ovy5GykW1R92XDcRXLPuKIiTHacN63ELXlQgBc0MAj4=; b=PocxSZ82k6KETacY0IOEV9UCl3wq6l2h3RxrpUqq3KXXa51xxJ3+n4JPXuqqqHFHQ3 U8C3rW97qhgnxbQQ1jts/q1jdAWhXgCI4CEl/2aP2Zyet+aYOO46oy4IBH1lZcC+obVT xgCb3XIdro7IMJJ71w/YhRuMK7luP3A0k2tISMb0Nipks8w3zmMTqSY1hh2mtDPB7RFN ZPzgUN/7dUm+oBxqV6zC3sU6s6IQWwnqChu/LiTUkDKf6ZpP44gL1hA21S5lTfQb8iQG rBwjJds0CT+iAITqMcx/tiBsyI7TAqVYhEcp/01WNkLf9HbFdaEtrFAH161Nsb5C7boK 0uRg== X-Received: by 10.66.172.69 with SMTP id ba5mr20061657pac.198.1370174205644; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydra (cpe-66-27-147-161.dc.res.rr.com. [66.27.147.161]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k3sm5166710pbc.23.2013.06.02.04.56.44 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 04:55:40 -0700 From: Fast Turtle To: Gentoo User List Subject: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits Message-Id: <20130602045540.9e274421fd39338ae764a06f@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25bf8c07-8152-4270-ab3e-9987074c6652 X-Archives-Hash: 36cce8a5ee0c4a06ee59f7db8d31a737 I've been going around with this little problem for a while. I have several 30GB files I'm trying to restore from an NTFS formatted external backup to an ext3 partition, yet every attempt has failed right after 16GB of copying without fail or error message. They silently failing and I'm stumped. One of the possible causes I've thought of was running out of innodes but don't know how to check that or any of the other options used to create the file system on - anyone want to help there? I've also decided to look at the mke2f.conf file in /etc and see some default options being passed that may be causing the problems [defaults] base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr enable_periodic_fsck = 0 blocksize = 4096 inode_size = 256 inode_ratio = 16384 Normally I use either a 1024 for most everything due to the many small files though for the partition I'm attempting to restore the files to, I've used 2048 as a compromise due to the number of larger files (music/videos) and critical backups from /etc I've also tried it with a default 4096 size on a 32GB ext2 formatted flash drive but even then, it's failing at 16GB w/o any error message.