From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 18:38:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD83637B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E9E43EB2 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:38:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2002112702383400200355n1e>; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:38:34 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (unknown [192.168.1.16]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC7D48463 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:48:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:38:34 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB Message-Id: <20021127024859.9DC7D48463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:41:24 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >>>>> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr >>>>> partition. >>>>> >>>> Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! >>>> >>> Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and >>> selected port upgrades only... >> >>I didn't think there was any change in behaviour during this time. >> >>> Assumption from responses being upgrading to a more recent stable >>> version is required to eliminate the problem? >> >>I think it would be better if you showed more detail about what you've >>done and what happened. Of course, if you want to upgrade to 4.7 >>anyway, that might be instructive, but don't expect it to fix your >>problems. > >backed up then deleted the entire backup mount, redid a fresh L0 dump and it >worked just fine. Not sure what the problem was, or why it would choose to halt >almost exactly around the 2GB mark... a quick search in google brough some 2GB >limit conversation so I figured Id better run it by the list. Appreciate the >comments. perhaps your mount was corrupted, or perhaps it died because there some FS errors that didnt get fsck out. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message