large file problem in rh7.1

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Do you have any log messages?  Perhaps you have a hardware
(disk) problem?  Are there any messages in your log files?
What about in "dmesg"?   Does your disk make funny noises?

For fsck:
        boot to single-user
        fsck /dev/hdaN  (where N in your partition, assuming this is hda)

If it's an fs/disk problem, then you might not be able to
save the file.

Also note that 80MB is _NOT_ a large file...  I've got a 900MB file
sitting around (I was using in on RH 6.2), and I've been able to move
it around just fine.

-derek

Ken Gosier <ken_gosier at yahoo.com> writes:

> So, I'm not able to cp the file into another dir on the
> same partition, it stops at the 50 MB. I'll try creating a
> 80 MB file on another partition.
> 
> Also: it's the local hard disk. It's using whichever fs
> comes with rh7.1, sorry don't know off-hand if that makes
> it ext2 or 3. (The PC is at home and I'm at work.)
> 
> The memory I have is 128 MB RAM, 256 MB swap space.
> 
> Many thanks for all the help. I had read man largefile
> before, and knew about the gigabyte limits. I thought maybe
> rh was doing something non-standard.
> 
> I would just download this mp3 again, but the server
> doesn't seem to be working anymore. I can read man fsck to
> see how to check the consistency of the fs where this file
> is sitting, when I get back from work this evening.
> 
> Question: Do you guys think it's possible to save the file
> if it's an fs problem?
> 
> 
> 
> --- Scott Prive <Scott.Prive at storigen.com> wrote:
> > You have a (disk) hardware or software (fs) problem.
> > Check your fs consistency.
> > You should be able to read files that are gigs in size,
> > with no problem.
> > 
> > Also, try creating another file that large on a different
> > partition, if possible, and see what happens. You're
> > using ext2 or ext3, correct?
> > 
> > -Scott
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Gosier [mailto:ken at kg293.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:06 AM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: large file problem in rh7.1
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, I have a large (80 MB) mp3 on my rh7.1 system , and
> > it keeps giving me
> > problems.
> > 
> > If I try to gzip, compress, cp, rcp, ftp, basically do
> > anything with it, I
> > get back 'Input/output error', after about 50 MB of the
> > activity is
> > completed.
> > 
> > I also downloaded the lxsplit utility to break it into
> > several small
> > files. This also worked till about 50 MB, but then hung
> > indefinitely.
> > 
> > If it's helpful:
> > lxsplit hung after 50253824 bytes
> > cp      died after 50257920 bytes.
> > gzip -1 died after 50053120 bytes.
> > gzip -9 died after 49971200 bytes.
> > 
> > Problem with rh, or possibly something funny about the
> > file? Many thanks
> > for any help--
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ken Gosier
> > ken at kg293.net
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
> =====
> Ken Gosier
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com
> 
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