From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:35:34 -0600 Message-ID: <20020609183534.GC14168@turbolinux.com> References: <1023708533.4654.301.camel@xserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1023708533.4654.301.camel@xserver> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Worley Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.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 -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/