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 A67701381F3 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FE39E07FE; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com (mail-pd0-f181.google.com [209.85.192.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43714E07F5 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id bv13so1171798pdb.40 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:38:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PVweGNglCEzJVRTntMYrIEH7DqueTkZGZ4CvaFeLirk=; b=Dk+CpPBgBiAto7TEII9XU8T/pB5jSVafxwKF63KDmPbH7BLfJzk/z1KSxUuRkq5XM7 2ZCorPdU2wE0X2+U87xuPpjdsUPyLVdcpTNHotQTO0/b2jIta7mRCNkMm8NTNqcqun56 +5mXQlwV5LwMdrzbFNCYzpXfwDjAEV5vxLmWbz97Cw0eC+pVcHg7YvCJwapeyvgvJ4fX olLgCPx8IQ8wHNXaC2cEdYHQJNT9wtYOi2udglUOoMWuCTz8Gim7HZwu3YM3f2skkJqe e0WCUE11wYgF+dO4kiDG+U6yqUydolNrHBBUAuAZ6zjwq8HWerOD8xfx1o1lz3NgPVk0 caMA== X-Received: by 10.66.145.98 with SMTP id st2mr32343879pab.24.1370403488786; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:38:08 -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 eq4sm28416179pad.16.2013.06.04.20.38.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:37:01 -0700 From: Fast Turtle To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits Message-Id: <20130604203701.1c5428ab216af88d49157be2@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130602130122.GB3401@acm.acm> References: <20130602045540.9e274421fd39338ae764a06f@gmail.com> <20130602130122.GB3401@acm.acm> 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: 8b95a840-e727-40c1-9b31-0dc78e2a1dd6 X-Archives-Hash: 94fbe86b7d7f0e7ebd386a1a822fb149 On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 +0000 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote: > > 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 > > The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum > file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be > you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksize on the partition? > > > 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. > > Sounds like laziness on the part of the author of the copy program you're > using. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > Thanks for the wikipedia info (could very well be the problem) Don't recall if I used 1k block sizes on the partition but it could be. Would certainly explain the failure right on 16GB - filesize was to large (never had problems copying between ntfs formatted drives under Windows).