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# 1  
Old 03-26-2015
File size limitation in the EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hello Friends,

I tried to take tar backup in my server, but it ended with an error.
It said that:
Code:
 /home/back/pallava_backup/fbackup_backup/stape_config
/home/back/romam_new.tar.gz
tar: /home/backup/back.tar.gz: Cannot write: No space left on device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@OWP-15 back]#

But i checked the system, it has enough space to hold

Code:
[root@OWP-15 back]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                     276535241 155700449 106783874  60% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
                     199146641 122482178  66545705  65% /home
/dev/sda1               118523     11323    101178  11% /boot
tmpfs                   916268         0    916268   0% /dev/shm

And tar backup was stopped exactly after it took 17GB of data

---------- Post updated at 05:55 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:52 PM ----------

And i checked the file size limit in the system and i got
Code:
ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) 102400000
pending signals                 (-i) 14288
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 14288
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited

created file size is as follow:

Code:
[root@OWP-15 back]#
[root@OWP-15 back]# cd /home/backup
[root@OWP-15 backup]#
[root@OWP-15 backup]#
[root@OWP-15 backup]# ls
back.tar.gz
[root@OWP-15 backup]# ll
total 16909071
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17247252480 Dec 31 06:04 back.tar.gz
[root@OWP-15 backup]#

# 2  
Old 03-26-2015
Disk quota?
Code:
quota -v

Kernel and file system?
Code:
uname -sr
mount | grep -w /home

# 3  
Old 03-27-2015
Try it without the compression option. I'm not sure how GNU tar on your system handles compression under the hood, but I think some older versions just create a temp tar file and then compresses that. Perhaps the uncompressed temp file filled up the disk then was deleted upon failure.
# 4  
Old 03-27-2015
There are lots of reasons your tar my fail.

What version of tar are you using and what options are you passing to tar when your script invokes it? Are you using a 32-bit version of tar or a 64-bit version? Output of file utility will tell you that information.
# 5  
Old 03-30-2015
Wrench
I got below output when excuting mentioned commands

Code:
[root@OWP-15 ~]# quota -v
[root@OWP-15 ~]#
[root@OWP-15 ~]#
[root@OWP-15 ~]# uname -sr
Linux 2.6.18-348.el5
[root@OWP-15 ~]#
[root@OWP-15 ~]#
[root@OWP-15 ~]# mount | grep -w /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 on /home type ext3 (rw)
[root@OWP-15 ~]#

Thanks in advance

---------- Post updated at 03:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:56 PM ----------

I tried without compression but it failed.

I think there is no problem with tar.

I tried to copy a file which one size greater than 17 GB <Actual Size is 22 GB>

via NFS.

It failed too.


Thanks in advance
# 6  
Old 03-30-2015
Hi.

I see in ext3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that the maximum file size for 1 KiB blocks is 16 GiB

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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# 7  
Old 03-30-2015
This is a likely problem. To confirm the current block size:
Code:
dumpe2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 | grep size
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