Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On 12/13/05, Manish Kathuria <manish@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there any limit on the size of the mail spool files in the spool
directory /var/spool/mail ? I have a user whose mail file is above 2 GB
and procmail cant write any further mails there ? AFAIK, the file size
limits are pretty high and in TB now.
2GB is the maximum filesize and it's due to limitations in the
operating system's filesystem driver, not any kind of quota. There
may be other filesystem options for Linux or options you can feed
mke3fs that will allow larger files (like enabling "largefiles" on
vxfs) but I'm not sure what they are. Anyway, as for your user's
email, there is nothing that can be done other than deleting some of
the mail there to make room for more.
If you want, you can backup the partition that the data is on, create
a filesystem there that's capable of supporting files larger than 2GB,
and then restoring the data. Keep in mind that filesystems that
support larger files generally have less space available due to the
filesytem accounting information necessary to support the larger files
(which is handled much like segment + offset memory in the old DOS PC
days).
Best of luck!
Chris,
Can you explain then how I can have a 4.7 gig iso image on my HD? Or
is this a limitation on how big a file that Linux can work with?
Robin
