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On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 +0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote: |
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> > I've been going around with this little problem for a while. |
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> > I have several 30GB files I'm trying to restore from an NTFS formatted |
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> > external backup to an ext3 partition, yet every attempt has failed |
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> > right after 16GB of copying without fail or error message. They |
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> > silently failing and I'm stumped. |
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> > One of the possible causes I've thought of was running out of innodes |
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> > but don't know how to check that or any of the other options used to |
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> > create the file system on - anyone want to help there? |
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> > I've also decided to look at the mke2f.conf file in /etc and see some |
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> > default options being passed that may be causing the problems |
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> > [defaults] |
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> > base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr |
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> > default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr |
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> > enable_periodic_fsck = 0 |
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> > blocksize = 4096 |
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> > inode_size = 256 |
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> > inode_ratio = 16384 |
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> > Normally I use either a 1024 for most everything due to the many small |
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> > files though for the partition I'm attempting to restore the files to, |
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> > I've used 2048 as a compromise due to the number of larger files |
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> > (music/videos) and critical backups from /etc |
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> The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum |
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> file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be |
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> you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksize on the partition? |
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> > I've also tried it with a default 4096 size on a 32GB ext2 formatted |
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> > flash drive but even then, it's failing at 16GB w/o any error message. |
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> Sounds like laziness on the part of the author of the copy program you're |
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> using. |
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if it is, then everyone is in trouble as it's the cp command - been part of *nix for many years |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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