What does "ulimit -a" report for your maximum allowed file size? Could you have limited yourself somehow? -- Matt Stegman On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Brandon Evans wrote: > Hi everyone, > This is a strange problem I have been having. I'm not sure where the > problem is, so I figured I'd start here. > > I as having problems with Bacula stopping on 17Gig Volume sizes, so I > decided to try to Just dd a 50 gig file. Sure enough, once the file hit > 17 gigs dd stopped and spit out an error > > > (pandora bacula)# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=50000 > File size limit exceeded > (pandora bacula)# > > > (pandora bacula)# ll > total 20334813 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17247252480 Sep 23 00:44 bigfile > -rw-r----- 1 root root 302323821 Sep 23 01:10 Default-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 156637059 Sep 18 01:08 Diff-wi0001 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 46985831 Sep 6 19:38 Full-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 47126293 Sep 7 14:39 Full-0002 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 2841621607 Sep 13 17:11 Full-wi0001 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1584252 Sep 18 01:05 Inc-0001 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 97963834 Sep 14 01:05 Inc-wi0001 > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 9.7G 5.8G 3.4G 64% / > /dev/hda1 99M 20M 75M 21% /boot > /dev/hda4 102G 2.2G 94G 3% /home > /dev/md2 221G 90G 120G 43% /mnt/storage > none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/lvg01-coraid > 812G 693G 114G 86% /mnt/coraid > > > > There are a few layers on this partation, so I figured I'd start at the > top with you guys and work my way down. The partation this size limit > is on looks like so... > > /mnt/coraid > +--------+ > | Ext3 | > +--------+ > | LVM 2 | > +--------+ > | Raid 5 | > +--------+ > > > So any one of these layers could be the problem. I was able to create a > 100 Gig file on the /home partition, so perhaps ext3 is not the problem, > but I'm really not sure. > > > The system is CentOs 4.1 running 2.6.13.2 (also tried 2.6.12.2) > > Any insight would be great > > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
