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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