Hello,
I tried your tip, but it did not help in my case, sorry....
I do not think it is an easy ulimit case, see output of getrlimit(RLIMIT_FSIZE).
Cheers
Peter
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:58:05AM +1300, Sartorelli, Kevin wrote:
> I struck the same error, and found it was a limit of the shell. using
> bash and doing ulimit -f 10240000 (unlimited) fixed the problem for me.
> I think that if you su from one user to another, the underlying shell
> can still affect things (like ulimit).
>
> Cheers
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Seiderer [mailto:Peter.Seiderer@ciselant.de]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 November 2001 6:47 a.m.
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [linux-kernel] What is the difference between 'login: root' and
> 'su -' ?
>
>
> Hello,
> tried today to mkfs.ext2 a partition of my disk and detected there is
> a little difference between 'login: root' and 'su -'.
>
> First I tried it this way:
>
> Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.14 (tty1).
>
> zodiak login: seiderer
> Password:
> seiderer@zodiak:~ > su -
> Password:
> zodiak:~ #
> zodiak:~ # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc4
> mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 716672 inodes, 1432116 blocks
> 71605 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> 44 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 16288 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
>
> Writing inode tables: 16/44File size limit exceeded
>
> strace showed that write returned wit EFBIG and the process ended with
> SIGXFSZ:
>
> write(1, "\10\10\10\10\10", 5) = 5
> write(1, "16/44", 5) = 5
> _llseek(4, 18446744071562084352, [2147500032], SEEK_SET) = 0
> write(4,
> "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32768) = -1
> EFBIG (File too large)
> --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) ---
> +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++
>
> When login in directly from the console as root everything went right:
> Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.14 (tty1).
>
> zodiak login: root
> Password:
> zodiak:~ # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc4
> mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 716672 inodes, 1432116 blocks
> 71605 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> 44 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 16288 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> zodiak:~ #
>
> The RLIMIT_FSIZE showed in both cases the same values:
> getrlimit(RLIMIT_FSIZE) rlim_cur: 2147483647 rlim_max: 2147483647
>
> Can anybody point me out what went wrong? Is it a kernel limit?
>
> Peter
>
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