file too large

[Amerley Doku]

Please we are running HPUX 11i. We backup some directories using OMNIBACK II. We are trying to restore these directories on Test server. We are experiencing this error:
[27] file too large not restored
We realised that some of the files are not being restored. We tried it 3X and still the same error.
Please could someone help us resolve this problem

Regards
AD

[Mike Shilladay]

Hi,

It sounds as though you a trying to restore a file to either:

a) A filesystem that is not large enough to accomodate the file.

or

b) You have not made the filesystem accept largefiles. ( more than 2GB ).

Mike.

[Anshumali · Accepted solution]

Enabling Largefiles:
Check if you have online jfs installed:
# swlist -l product | grep -i online
fsadm -o largefiles /dev//r


To enable an existing file system without OnlineJFS you could do this:

umount /
fsadm -o largefiles /dev//r

Mount it back up........then to double check run and it should say "largefiles"

fsadm /dev//r

You may be out of space as well as mentioned.....

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

seems like your test server doesn't have largefiles enabled.

Check with:
'fstyp -v /dev/vg00/lvol |grep -i f_flag'

If f_flag: 0 -> max 2 GB
if f_flag: 16 -> max 8 GB

You can set it with:
'fsadm -F vxfs (or hfs) -o largefiles /dev/vg00/lvol

See also:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1056373

Also you have to update /etc/fstab , see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=940718

HTH
Volkmar

[Hasan Atasoy]

hi ;

look at target fs by "fsadm /mountpoint". it shows largefiles if largefiles supported.
if it is not supported than
fsadm -o largefiles /dev/vgname/lvname will convert fs to largefiles support.

Hasan.

[Wouter Jagers]

Hiya,

Is this file >2GB ? In that case you're probably facing option (b) from above.

To check whether your filesystem supports largfiles, issue the command 'fsadm -F vxfs ' and check for 'largefiles' in the output.

If it's not there, there are two possibilities:
1) you have onlineJFS: enable largefiles support with 'fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles '
2) you don't have onlineJFS: recreate the filesystem with the largefiles option. (maybe you can also unmount and run the command from (1), but I'm not sure about that)

Now the filesystem should support largefiles.

To check whether it has been mounted with largefiles support:

Issue the 'mount' command without any options. Check the mount options of the filesystem in question for 'largefiles'.

If not there, re-mount the filesystem with the largefiles option (-o largefiles) or add largefiles to the options in fstab.

Cheers,
Wout

[Amerley Doku]

I realised that the directory has 'nolargefiles' enabled. With the inputs from colleagues I figured how to enable 'largefiles'

BR