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.
