Have you noticed any bad blocks warnings on your /var/log/messages? The badblocks command can also help you.
On 7/25/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, the file system is ext and block size is the default which is 4096, > so I should be able to have 16 Tera Byte filesystem and 2 Tera Byte > files size. > > I had to transfer some files which the total size was about 250 G > so I used tar -zcvf to tar and gzip them , but server crashed and rebooted > two times, once when tar.gz file was about 32 G and the second time > tar.gz file was about 64 G, any idea what could be the cause. > > tar -zcvf tar.gz /somefolder/* > > Thanks > > > Brett Schroeder wrote: > > > Centos wrote: > > > >> Thank you Jim, > >> > >> How can I find the current block size and file system type ? > >> > >> > > > > File system type can be found in 3rd column of /etc/fstab. > > > > For ext{2,3} file systems the block size can be found by > > > > tune2fs -l /dev/XXXX | grep "Block size" > > > > where XXX is something like > > 1) sda1 (for SCSI or SATA partitions) > > 2) md0 (for software raid devices) > > 3) VolGroup00/LogVol00 (for Logical Volumes under LVM) > > > > > >> Jim Perrin wrote: > >> > >>> On 7/25/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> What is the largest file size that can be created on Linux ? > >>>> is there any limitation ? > >>>> > >>> This depends on several things, including the architecture (x86_64 vs > >>> x86) and the blocksize used for the filesystem. > >>> > >>> For ext3, it breaks out like this -> > >>> > >>> Block size Max file size Max filesystem size > >>> 1KiB 16GiB 2TiB > >>> 2KiB 256GiB 8TiB > >>> 4KiB 2 TiB 16TiB > >>> 8KiB 16TiB 32TiB > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS@centos.org > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- *** Cleber P. de Souza _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos