From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Worley Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1023754229.4654.1831.camel@xserver> References: <1023708533.4654.301.camel@xserver> <20020609183534.GC14168@turbolinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020609183534.GC14168@turbolinux.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com It's new files I'm trying to create. Am I missing something... such as LVM underneath is screwing something up? I just want to add to my existing partition, and not create new partitions. Thanks, Chris On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 12:35, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 10, 2002 05:28 -0600, Chris Worley wrote: > > I'm Running Linux 2.4.10-4GB on SuSE 7.3 with reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j-1 > > (using 3.5.x disk format...ReiserFS version 3.6.25) atop > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > It is my understanding that you cannot use >2GB files with 3.5 disk > format. The only way to "upgrade" is to backup restore. If you > mount with the "conv" mount option, you apparently will be able to > create _new_ files in the 3.6 format (i.e. they can be > 2GB), but > existing files cannot grow past 2GB. > > You could "solve" this problem by doing something like: > > tar cf - /home | tar xf - -C /tmp > rm -r /home/* > mv /tmp/home/* /home/* > rmdir /tmp/home > > Which will re-create all of your files with the 3.6 format "inodes" > and get rid of your old format inodes. You have to be careful if > you do this, because you run the risk of accidentally deleting all > of your files if you do the wrong thing. If you have enough free > space in another partition, you may as well just format it with > 3.6 format and copy everything over and delete the old partition. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ >