On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:23:49 +0100, LEVAI Daniel <l...@ecentrum.hu> wrote: > Hi! Hi, > > > I'm having this issue with an ext2fs filesystem on an external USB > drive. > I've created the partition/disklabel/filesystem with OpenBSD tools, and > after mounting, and dd'ing /dev/zero onto the fs, it bails out at 2GiB: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hotplug/sd3i_FUJITSU/Downloads/testfile bs=4096 > dd: /mnt/hotplug/sd3i_FUJITSU/Downloads/testfile: File too large > 524288+0 records in > 524287+0 records out > 2147479552 bytes transferred in 399.042 secs (5381579 bytes/sec) > > > I don't remember having a 2GiB filesize limit anywhere near, but the old > extfs. What am I missing here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2 Max file size 16 GB - 2 TB
So, check if your partition is really in ext2 and the size of this partition. And what is the physical size of your external drive ? :) Guillaume. > > > Thanks, > Daniel
