Setting the hard limit for users filesize

[Randy Gibson]

I have a 8BG partition and a user wants to create a 4BG file. It stops at 2GB. ulimit shows unlimited. How do I raise the limit on HP-UX B11.11?

~Randy

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I bet you don't have the 'largefiles' option set for that filesystem.

Do a:

# fsadm /mount_point_name

If it returns 'nolargefiles' then that is your problem.

To fix it, if you have Online-JFS do,

# fsadm -o largefiles /mount_point_name

Also be sure to check you /etc/fstab and if the option 'nolargefiles' is on the line for this file system then delete the 'no' part so it is 'largefiles'.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Randy,

2 GB limit tells me that the filesystems is not enabled for largefiles.

Make sure largefiles are enabled on this filesystem. You an use mkfs with -m option to find it out.

mkfs -m /dev/vgxx/lvolx

If you have onlineJFS, you can enable largefiles using fsadm command.

fsadm -o largefiles /mount_point.


-Sri

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You need to change the operating parameters for the filesystem to include the 'largefiles' capability.
If you have the online JFS product this can be done without unmounting the filesystem using 'fsadm'. If you don't have the online JFS license you will need to unmount the filesystem.

Using online JFS
# fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/myvg/mylvol

Don't forget to update your /etc/fstab file.

To check if you have online JFS, run this:
# swlist -l product | grep -i online

HTH
Michael

[Randy Gibson]

Thanks Patrick, Sridhar and Michael that fixed it.

You guys are fast too!

~Randy