* Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits
@ 2013-06-02 12:11 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2013-06-02 12:11 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
>
> 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.
>
>
I can offer this: df -i shows inodes.
root@fireball / # df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 1525920 22728 1503192 2% /
/dev/sda6 1525920 22728 1503192 2% /
devtmpfs 2049540 593 2048947 1% /dev
tmpfs 2058249 654 2057595 1% /run
shm 2058249 2 2058247 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 98392 794 97598 1% /boot
/dev/mapper/OS-usr 1638400 462712 1175688 29% /usr
/dev/mapper/OS-var 1703936 259049 1444887 16% /var
/dev/mapper/home-home 183148544 316215 182832329 1% /home
/dev/mapper/backup-backup 61046784 5818 61040966 1% /backup
tmpfs 2058249 122993 1935256 6% /var/tmp/portage
root@fireball / #
Hope that helps on that part at least.
Dale
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