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From: Chris Worley <chrisw@lnxi.com>
Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away
Date: 10 Jun 2002 08:09:40 -0600
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On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:05, Chris Worley wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 22:58, Oleg Drokin wrote: 
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2147483648 Jun 09 01:17 ./test.bigfile
> > 
> > Is this file located on the converted volume (/dev/worley/newsys)?
> > Would following sequence of commans help?
> > rm -rf ./test.bigfile ; dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
> 

I forgot to add, the output is:

# rm test.bigfile ;dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=1023M
dd: advancing past 1098437885952 bytes in output file `./test.bigfile':
File too large

> Everything but /boot is on that volume (and /boot is mounted ro):
> 
> # df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/worley/newsys    78763672  73604064   5159608  94% /
> /dev/hda1                19976     18114       831  96% /boot
> shmfs                   514732         0    514732   0% /dev/shm
> 
> And deleting it first doesn't help.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a kernel/reiser tools mismatch.  How could I verify what's in the kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 22:58, Oleg Drokin wrote: 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:27:27AM -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> > 
> > > I do an initrd, to load lvm modules and register the lvm devices... so I
> > > changed the linuxrc in the initrd to mount my root fs with the "conv"
> > > option from within my Linuxrc:
> > > 	/bin/mount -o conv /dev/worley/newsys /mnt
> > > 	/bin/umount /dev/worley/newsys
> > 
> > That would work.
> > 
> > > It fed back the message:
> > > 	reiserfs: converting 3.5.x filesystem to the new format
> > 
> > That confirms that everything went fine.
> > 
> > > But, I'm still not able to create large files:
> > > 	# dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
> > > 	dd: writing `./test.bigfile': File too large
> > > 	2097153+0 records in
> > > 	2097152+0 records out
> > > 	# ls -l ./test.bigfile
> > > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2147483648 Jun 09 01:17 ./test.bigfile
> > 
> > Is this file located on the converted volume (/dev/worley/newsys)?
> > Would following sequence of commans help?
> > rm -rf ./test.bigfile ; dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
> > 
> > Bye,
> >     Oleg
> > 
>