From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFaGz-0006mF-RK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:51:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51EC2E049D; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost03.isp.att.net (fmailhost03.isp.att.net [204.127.217.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1864BE049D for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.222] (host-216-78-70-222.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.222]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc03) with ESMTP id <20080706195145H0300pfjt9e>; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:51:45 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.222] Message-ID: <4871224F.4000601@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:51:43 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080705 SeaMonkey/1.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files References: <486D97E4.3070305@bellsouth.net> <486E7D45.1000907@bellsouth.net> <20080706135046.50dee9a8@ilievnet.com> <4870D2CA.8060403@bellsouth.net> <20080706165348.GB4805@marvin.heimnetz.local> In-Reply-To: <20080706165348.GB4805@marvin.heimnetz.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ffcaed24-cbe9-48ab-9a84-5d8e83a531da X-Archives-Hash: 38f5d0742166124b4f024a4273a92002 Sebastian G=FCnther wrote: > * Dale (dalek1967@bellsouth.net) [06.07.08 16:13]: > =20 >> Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure w= hy=20 >> but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper lim= its=20 >> on tar? >> >> =20 > Maybe it is more a problem of the specific fs, where you try to create=20 > it. If there the blocksize is to small (1024) then there is your=20 > problem. > > What does dumpe2fs -h says about the blocksize of the specific device? > > HTH > Sebastian > > =20 I do remember it was something to do with a block. I'll create another=20 one and get the exact error. I use reiserfs on all my partitions except=20 /boot. According to mount, it uses udf for the DVD. Info you wanted=20 about the partition where it was being untarred: root@smoker / # dumpe2fs -h /dev/hdb1 dumpe2fs 1.40.9 (27-Apr-2008) Filesystem volume name: Last mounted on: Filesystem UUID: 1151d860-e80d-4897-a791-3fabec3386da Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index=20 filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 4890624 Block count: 19537040 Reserved block count: 976852 Free blocks: 11468312 Free inodes: 4361970 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1019 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Thu Jul 3 18:18:01 2008 Last mount time: Sat Jul 5 20:52:40 2008 Last write time: Sat Jul 5 20:52:40 2008 Mount count: 3 Maximum mount count: 23 Last checked: Thu Jul 3 18:18:01 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Tue Dec 30 17:18:01 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: add02ebf-4002-429a-8463-f5a4509bd066 Journal backup: inode blocks Journal size: 128M root@smoker / # =20 Thanks Dale :-) :-)=20 --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list