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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: David King <dking@ketralnis.com>
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Subject: Re: snapshot fails with "Filesize limit exceeded"
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:07:11PM -0700, David King wrote:
> When trying to create a snapshot (per the handbook at <http:// 
> www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html>),  
> the creation of the snapshot fails:
> 
> /mnt/big# mount -u -o snapshot /mnt/big/.snap/"`date`" /mnt/big
> mount: /mnt/big: Filesize limit exceeded
> 
> It takes about a minute to fail. This is a 300GB drive:
> 
> /mnt/big/.snap# df -h /mnt/big
> Filesystem            Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/mirror/gm0s1a    269G    134G    113G    54%    /mnt/big
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?

Your account has a filesize limit set?  Check limit(1).

Kris