Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-13 Thread Stuart Howard
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Stuart Howard wrote: Yes I am using samba to connect to the XP box as you suggested. The error report arrived via mail from a cron, prehaps the garbling of the message occured there? Anyway

[gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
Further reading further problem, I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore file size is well ... biG So I now need to discover where the fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Stuart Howard wrote: Further reading further problem, I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore file

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 12 September 2005 22:40, Stuart Howard wrote: To recap the commands I am calling are     tar -czf /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /usr     cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup/fullsysbackup Is NEWSTU a samba mount from the XP box? The source is Gentoo box 2.6.11.5 on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
Stuart Howard wrote: Yes I am using samba to connect to the XP box as you suggested. The error report arrived via mail from a cron, prehaps the garbling of the message occured there? Anyway thanks again for responses, I usually clean up /tmp after the script runs so I made the assumption later