Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-06 Thread Fast Turtle
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 + Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-04 Thread Fast Turtle
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 + Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-04 Thread Fast Turtle
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:11:11 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Fast Turtle
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/6/2 Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com: 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? You can try `touch`ing a file on that partition and see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 04:55:40 -0700, Fast Turtle wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Hill
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: 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? Where does such a strange limitation come from? Ext*

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jörg. On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 02 2013, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Jörg. On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits

2013-06-02 Thread James Cloos
AM == Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: AM Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a AM number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block AM size multiplies max file size by 16. Doubling the block size means that the structure specifying which