On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Stuart Howard wrote: > Further reading further problem, > > I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - > 2.6 kernels that the file size limit I have posted below should not be > an issue ie. I should be version 3.6 and therefore file size is well > ... biG > > So I now need to discover where the fault lies, the error message was > "File size limit exceededcp" > no google, dogpile or yahoo search admits to ever knowing this error > however I suppose the clue is in "-cp" ?
the cp is from your command: cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz ... The error message is NOT File size limit exceededcp. The error message should be .... line 30: cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz ... File size limit exceeded I am not quite sure why the error message got jumbled up the way it did in your case. > To recap the commands I am calling are > tar -czf /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /usr > cp /tmp/fullsysbackupusr.tgz /mnt/NEWSTU/genstubackup/fullsysbackup > The source is Gentoo box 2.6.11.5 on a reiserfs partition, the file is > created but will not exceed 2Gb or 2,147,483,647. Once created [though > the file should be larger] it is dutifully transfered to the XP box > via cp. The problem is here. The kernel code used to access smbfs (I presume that is how you mount your XP box to /mnt/NEWSTU?) has a file size limit of 2/4GB (I am not quite sure about the number). http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-May/0058.html W -- Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 32 days, 1:31 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
