Uncompress Problem

[Roger Lavender]

I am attempting to uncompress a 329MB (*.Z) file and I am receiving a message "File too large".

What am I doing wrong. Filesystem is 10GB, ulimit=unlimited.

Signed
Confused

[Fred Ruffet]

Check for your filesystem does not support largefiles.

[Geoff Wild]

fsadm /mountpoint

Should see largefiles

If not:

fsadm -o largefiles /mountpoint

Rgds...Geoff

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Probably the uncomressed file is more than 2GB and you are trying to uncompress it into a directory / mount point that will not support file size more than 2GB. you need to have the "largefiles" option set for the filesystem to copy / create file of more than 2 GB in that.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[SS_6]

Which command you are using to uncompress and how much total free space is available to check this run the following command under that file system.
#bdf . and hit entre

Wherever we uncompress a file it needs more space because first it uncopress it successfully and than delete the *.Z file from system.

[SS_6]

To see and Check/Set largefile option do
#fsadm -F vxfs /mountpoint (To check)
#fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /mountpoint (To set it to largefiles)

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Take a look at this to implement "largefiles" for your filesystem.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000072837005

The itrc doc id is KBAN00000105

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Roger Lavender]

Thanks ALL!

Have scheduled downtime to unmount the JournalFS and use the "fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /mountpoint" and mount command to correct the problem.

Have updated my "Hints and Tips" for future memory lapses.

Thanks again!

Roger