Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/16/07 09:04, André Wendt wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and
>> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3.
>
>> $ ulimit -f
>> unlimited
>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>> This doesn't seem to be a problem for other programs. I have a
>> VirtualBox snapshot as large as 2,587,808 bytes.
>
>> Any hints as to what's going on? Please CC me, I'm not on the list.
>
> 2 megabytes? Computers have been able to create 2MB files for 40 years.
Ah, thanks for mentioning that. Of course it's 2 *GB*, the sizes are in
*kilobytes*. I didn't realize 'til I read 'man du'.
> So, why are you blaming ext3 when there is *obviously* some other
> explanation?
>
> Like running out of room on the device.
I don't think so:
$ df -h | grep home
/dev/hda7 27G 21G 5,0G 81% /home
The message in the subject is what I get before the program exists. It
would be different if there's no space.
André
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