Re: File Size

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ok, the file system is ext and block size is the default which is 4096,
so I should be able to have 16 Tera Byte filesystem and 2 Tera Byte files size.

I had to transfer some files which the total size was about 250 G
so I used tar -zcvf to tar and gzip them , but server crashed and rebooted
two times, once when tar.gz file was about 32 G and the second time
tar.gz file was about 64 G, any idea what could be the cause.

tar -zcvf tar.gz /somefolder/*

Thanks


Brett Schroeder wrote:

Centos wrote:
Thank you Jim,

How can I find the current block size and file system type ?


File system type can be found in 3rd column of /etc/fstab.

For ext{2,3} file systems the block size can be found by

tune2fs -l /dev/XXXX | grep "Block size"

where XXX is something like
1) sda1 (for SCSI or SATA partitions)
2) md0 (for software raid devices)
3) VolGroup00/LogVol00 (for Logical Volumes under LVM)

Jim Perrin wrote:
On 7/25/07, Centos <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the largest file size that can be created on Linux ?
is there any limitation ?
This depends on several things, including the architecture (x86_64 vs
x86) and the blocksize used for the filesystem.

For ext3, it breaks out like this ->

Block size     Max file size     Max filesystem size
1KiB               16GiB         2TiB
2KiB               256GiB        8TiB
4KiB               2 TiB          16TiB
8KiB              16TiB                 32TiB


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