topic Re: ignite : gzip failed in Operating System - HP-UX

ignite : gzip failed

Rodolph — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:39:39 GMT

hello ,
here the message when i try to make an archive :
gzip : stdout file too large
the gzip command failed.

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:45:26 GMT

Check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log I think youve filled up either /tmp or /var/tmp. You will need to increase it in order to make your ignite image.

Re: ignite : gzip failed

T G Manikandan — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:52:08 GMT

I have two questions to you

1.What version of gzip you are using?
2.Is your filesystem enabled for largefiles.
I suppose the filesize is going above the 2GB limit.

Post back

Thanks

Re: ignite : gzip failed

T G Manikandan — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:59:26 GMT

The link has the solution

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x63db35067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

you cah check the gzip version using

/usr/contrib/bin/gzip -V

you can install latest package of gzip from

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.3/

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Rodolph — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:07:57 GMT

my gzip version is 1.2.4a

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Domenico_5 — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:31:23 GMT

hi

could we have other information about your file?

Like size and so on...

regards

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:59:32 GMT

gzip 1.2.4 or greater is fine for 2gig files (largefiles).

Check your root shell. Root shell must be /sbin/sh.
# grep root /etc/passwd

Use vipw to correct it.
# vipw

Cheryl

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Rodolph — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:03:15 GMT

my root shell is /sbin/sh ,
my version of gzip is 1.2.4,
how can i see if i'm in large file with fsadm ?

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:05:31 GMT

Try fstyp:
# fstyp -v /dev/vg01/lvol1

f_flag: 16 = largefiles
f_flag: 0 = no_largefiles

Cheryl

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Rodolph — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:13:15 GMT

Here the result of fstyp -v ..
root:/var/tmp# fstyp -v /dev/vg00/lvol3
vxfs
version: 3
f_bsize: 8192
f_frsize: 1024
f_blocks: 274432
f_bfree: 238729
f_bavail: 223809
f_files: 62272
f_ffree: 59680
f_favail: 59680
f_fsid: 1073741827
f_basetype: vxfs
f_namemax: 254
f_magic: a501fcf5
f_featurebits: 0
f_flag: 0
f_fsindex: 6
f_size: 274432

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:18:00 GMT

f_flag: 0 <--- No largefiles

Largefiles white paper in /usr/share/doc/lg_files.txt explains how to enable largefiles.

Cheryl

Re: ignite : gzip failed

Rodolph — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:06:35 GMT

no more idea ?

Re: ignite : gzip failed

T G Manikandan — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:14:01 GMT

check whether onlinejfs is installed in the machine using

#swlist|grep Online

If it is installed then there is no need to umount the file system
you can do a

#fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vg??/lvol??

If you do not have Online jfs installed then

umount the file system.
mount it using the largefiles option
fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vg??/lvol??

Also modify the /etc/fstab from nolargefiles to largefiles for the filesystem

Thanks