On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 +
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote:
> > I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
>
> > I have several 30GB files I'm trying to restore from an NTFS formatted
> > external backup to an ext3 part
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:11:11 -0500
Dale wrote:
> Fast Turtle wrote:
> > I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
> >
> > 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
> > af
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 +
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote:
> > I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
>
> > I have several 30GB files I'm trying to restore from an NTFS formatted
> > external backup to an ext3 part
> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie writes:
AM> Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a
AM> number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block
AM> size multiplies max file size by 16.
Doubling the block size means that the structure specifying which block
On Sun, Jun 02 2013, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Jörg.
>
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> > The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum
>> > file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could
Hello, Jörg.
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum
> > file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be
> > you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksiz
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> The wikipedia page on Ext3 says that with a 1kB blocksize, the maximum
> file size is 16GB, but with a 2kB blocksize it's 256GB. Could it be
> you've somehow actually got a 1kB blocksize on the partition?
Where does such a strange limitation come from?
Ext* started as a
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote:
> I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
>
> 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 copyin
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 04:55:40 -0700, Fast Turtle wrote:
> 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.
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:40AM -0700, Fast Turtle wrote:
> I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
> 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 wi
2013/6/2 Fast Turtle :
> 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?
You can try `touch`ing a file on that partition and see if it fails.
If s
Fast Turtle wrote:
> I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
>
> 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 silen
I've been going around with this little problem for a while.
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.
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