Hai there,
I have a vmware image of 7 GB which I want to backup on my usb hdd (40GB). However during the copy of the image from my hdd to the usb hdd, I get the error message "File size limit exceeded"
Anyone got a tweak or solution to help me backup my image ?
chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$cp rawhide.vmdk /media/disk/ File size limit exceeded
chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 8189 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 8189 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited
chitlesh
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
Hai there,
I have a vmware image of 7 GB which I want to backup on my usb hdd (40GB). However during the copy of the image from my hdd to the usb hdd, I get the error message "File size limit exceeded"
Anyone got a tweak or solution to help me backup my image ?
chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$cp rawhide.vmdk /media/disk/ File size limit exceeded
chitlesh(rawhide)[0]$ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 8189 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 8189 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited
chitlesh
You have quotas installed on this filesystem?
On 11/17/06, Joachim Backes < hidden > wrote:
You have quotas installed on this filesystem?
you mean quota ? yes.
chitlesh
Today Chitlesh GOORAH did spake thusly:
Hai there,
I have a vmware image of 7 GB which I want to backup on my usb hdd (40GB). However during the copy of the image from my hdd to the usb hdd, I get the error message "File size limit exceeded"
It's not a fat drive or something silly is it? They have file size limits... FAT = 2gig limit FAT32 = 4gig limit
On 11/17/06, Scott van Looy < hidden > wrote:
It's not a fat drive or something silly is it? They have file size limits... FAT = 2gig limit FAT32 = 4gig limit
hmm My hdd is on ext3 whereas my usb hdd is on fat32
do you think this might be the problem ?
chitlesh
Today Chitlesh GOORAH did spake thusly:
On 11/17/06, Scott van Looy < hidden > wrote:
It's not a fat drive or something silly is it? They have file size limits... FAT = 2gig limit FAT32 = 4gig limit
hmm My hdd is on ext3 whereas my usb hdd is on fat32
do you think this might be the problem ?
Yep, reckon so...as I said, AFAIK there's a 4gig limit on FAT32 filesizes
Scott van Looy wrote:
It's not a fat drive or something silly is it? They have file size limits... FAT = 2gig limit FAT32 = 4gig limit
Chitlesh GOORAH replied:
hmm My hdd is on ext3 whereas my usb hdd is on fat32
do you think this might be the problem ?
Scott (correctly) told him:
Yep, reckon so...as I said, AFAIK there's a 4gig limit on FAT32 filesizes
Incidentally, "Red Hat Magazine" today published *exactly* this advice at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/tips_tricks/ ...
James
James Wilkinson wrote:
Scott (correctly) told him:
Yep, reckon so...as I said, AFAIK there's a 4gig limit on FAT32 filesizes
Incidentally, "Red Hat Magazine" today published *exactly* this advice at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/tips_tricks/ ...
Yeah... that's one way to do it. The other that comes to mind is using "split":
split --bytes=4000M rawhide.vmdk /media/disk/rawhide.vmdk-split.
"split" will create 4000 M chunks of the rawhide.vmdk file in /media/disk. When you want to reassemble them, you can just cat them like so:
cat /media/disk/rawhide.vmdk-split.* > rawhide.vmdk
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