Re: 2GB limit won't go away

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>]

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
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Andreas Dilger
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