Finding files bigger than 2GB

[Erik Fredette]

Hi,

I have to copy (cpio) files from one disk array to another, but because of cpio limitation of 2Gb filesize, I have to make sure no files are bigger than 2Gb.

I have been trying many command lines things using ll with grep and print$ but I have not been able to come up with something that will work.

Can someone help me on this one please.

Thanks,

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

find . -size +nnnn

where nnnn is the bound you want to check. man find for the gory details

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

And, by the way, you should be skipping to GNU cpio, available from ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/gnu/cpio/ which does not have the 2Gb limit

[harry d brown jr]

find / -type f -size +2147483648c -exec ls -l {} \;

Of course you could get GNU's tar, which supports 2GB+ files:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/


live free or die
harry

[Karen Elrod]

You can use find to locate the files that you need.
find / -size +2000000000c

Good Luck,
Karen

[A. Clay Stephenson]

One very easy technique would be to unmount the filesystem and then attempt to mount it with -o nolargefiles. If that works, you are good to go. You can use find . -size to locate the large files.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Erik


do like this


ls -l | awk '{if ($6 >> "2147483648") print $NF $6}'

this will list the files greater than 2 Gb under the directory where you run this command. Store it in afile and thecheck the filenames etc.

You can use GNU tar to overcome 2.0GB limitation

Manoj Srivastava

[S.K. Chan]

Just run your "find-cpio" on files which are less that 2GB.. (for exmaple ..)

# find . -type f -size -2000000000c | cpio -pvdumx /

Test first ..

# find . -type f -size -2000000000c -exec ll {} \;

[Erik Fredette]

Thanks to you all.

It's working perfectly.