On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It did generate some output file under the output directory. However, > none of these files are the original files. About 196M bytes files are > generated, however, every single file is of the same size, 4KB. > That's strange,since while testing it i have seen files upto 274KB. > > were four types of files, cpp/png/gif/pdf. I tried to open the pdf > files, it could be open, but the contents are not what I expected, > there are just some weird contents in the pdf file. Actually how can a > normal pdf be only 4KB? > I find it difficult to understand why all files are 4KB? What was the > command that you have used to invoke extcarve? > What's your file system's default block size? (Use command : tune2fs -l > /dev/<your_device> | grep "Block size") I have tested > with ext3,ext4 with 4KB as block size. >> I was using "extcarve -g". Here are the information you asked: test # tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem volume name: SCRATCH Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: fe1d144c-7dac-47bf-b28d-c16aa591a1b5 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 28229632 Block count: 112916868 Reserved block count: 5645843 Free blocks: 111069127 Free inodes: 28205356 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 997 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Thu Sep 24 07:08:16 2009 Last mount time: Mon Jun 13 14:59:06 2011 Last write time: Mon Jun 13 18:06:10 2011 Mount count: 4 Maximum mount count: 28 Last checked: Thu Jun 2 19:32:20 2011 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Tue Nov 29 18:32:20 2011 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 254f5863-3bf9-4ae9-ab99-9c433bce0aa8 Journal backup: inode blocks Jidong _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users