[CentOS] File Size

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any idea why my server crashes when I am creating a 200 G tar file?
I am using tar -zcvf and the original file is about 250 G


Centos 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 <centos at unixplanet.biz> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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