On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:01:22 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> 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 partition, yet every attempt has failed > > right after 16GB of copying without fail or error message. They > > silently failing and I'm stumped. > > > 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? > > > 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 > > > [defaults] > > base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr > > default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr > > enable_periodic_fsck = 0 > > blocksize = 4096 > > inode_size = 256 > > inode_ratio = 16384 > > > 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 > > 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? > > > 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. > > Sounds like laziness on the part of the author of the copy program you're > using. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > Thanks for the wikipedia info (could very well be the problem) Don't recall if I used 1k block sizes on the partition but it could be. Would certainly explain the failure right on 16GB - filesize was to large (never had problems copying between ntfs formatted drives under Windows).
