Have you noticed any bad blocks warnings on your /var/log/messages?
The badblocks command can also help you.
On 7/25/07, Centos <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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