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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:11:26
Message-Id: 51AB365F.8090706@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits by Fast Turtle
1 Fast Turtle wrote:
2 > I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
3 >
4 > I have several 30GB files I'm trying to restore from an NTFS formatted external backup to an ext3 partition, yet every attempt has failed right after 16GB of copying without fail or error message. They silently failing and I'm stumped.
5 >
6 > One of the possible causes I've thought of was running out of innodes but don't know how to check that or any of the other options used to create the file system on - anyone want to help there?
7 >
8 > I've also decided to look at the mke2f.conf file in /etc and see some default options being passed that may be causing the problems
9 >
10 > [defaults]
11 > base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr
12 > default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr
13 > enable_periodic_fsck = 0
14 > blocksize = 4096
15 > inode_size = 256
16 > inode_ratio = 16384
17 >
18 > Normally I use either a 1024 for most everything due to the many small files though for the partition I'm attempting to restore the files to, I've used 2048 as a compromise due to the number of larger files (music/videos) and critical backups from /etc
19 >
20 > I've also tried it with a default 4096 size on a 32GB ext2 formatted flash drive but even then, it's failing at 16GB w/o any error message.
21 >
22 >
23
24
25 I can offer this: df -i shows inodes.
26
27 root@fireball / # df -i
28 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
29 rootfs 1525920 22728 1503192 2% /
30 /dev/sda6 1525920 22728 1503192 2% /
31 devtmpfs 2049540 593 2048947 1% /dev
32 tmpfs 2058249 654 2057595 1% /run
33 shm 2058249 2 2058247 1% /dev/shm
34 /dev/sda1 98392 794 97598 1% /boot
35 /dev/mapper/OS-usr 1638400 462712 1175688 29% /usr
36 /dev/mapper/OS-var 1703936 259049 1444887 16% /var
37 /dev/mapper/home-home 183148544 316215 182832329 1% /home
38 /dev/mapper/backup-backup 61046784 5818 61040966 1% /backup
39 tmpfs 2058249 122993 1935256 6% /var/tmp/portage
40 root@fireball / #
41
42
43 Hope that helps on that part at least.
44
45 Dale
46
47 :-) :-)
48
49 --
50 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits Fast Turtle <fturtle@×××××.com>