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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
