From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 23:16:08 +0400 Message-ID: <20020609231608.B8386@namesys.com> References: <1023708533.4654.301.camel@xserver> <20020609183534.GC14168@turbolinux.com> <1023754229.4654.1831.camel@xserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1023754229.4654.1831.camel@xserver> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Worley Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! The easiest way for you to go is to boot of rescue CD/diskette and then mount your root as -o conv (btw, SuSE 7.3 does not come with reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j-1) Or if you do not use initrd during your normal boot, you can issue 'lilo -R "linux rootfsflags=conv"' command and reboot. replace linux with your usual lilo target if needed. Flags that are passed from /etc/fstab are only applied to rootfs on remount and you cannot convert fs on remount. Bye, Oleg On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:10:28PM -0600, Chris Worley wrote: > 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/ > > > >