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Robert
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 Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 1:05 am Post subject: "File size limit exceeded" (2gb) |
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I keep getting this error and I can't seem to get to the bottom of it ;/ What I am trying to accomplish is to join 2 .wav files into one file that exceeds 2 GB.
At first I thought that the filesystem (ext3) was the issue, so I switched to reiserfs. Then I suspected maybe Audacity somehow had a 2GB limit, so I tried joing the files using Ecasound..to no avail ;(
Next I searched the web and came up with a suggestion to change the values in /proc/sys/fs/file-max, but no dice. I am using the Pro OSS sound drivers and I created these wav files using the "record" utility to capture a DAT recording from the SPDIF input. The wav files are otherwise fine. Oh.. and I do have Gigs and Gigs of Freespace.
Any ideas?
>HW Info that may be relevant:
AMD2000+
Asus A7v333/kt333
768Mb DDR333
80Gb Maxtor ATA133 (Ext3)
60Gb Maxtor ATA133 (ReiserFS)
M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 (SemiPro Soundcard)
C-Media 8738 (Onboard Sound) |
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neuron
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:29 am Post subject: |
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man ulimit
also, if you have pam.d, that may be blocking it  |
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Robert
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| neuron wrote: | man ulimit
also, if you have pam.d, that may be blocking it :) |
Thanks, I was unaware of ulimit, but it was already set to unlimited. I also sifted through /etc/pam.d/ but didn't see anything that appears to relate to filezise.
Interestingly, I am able to create a file larger than 2 gigs using:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test_3gb_file |
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neuron
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 3:06 am Post subject: |
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your root user should be able to create files bigger than 2gb either way..
you have done du -h right ?  |
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xorbe
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Just maybe the WAV format is limited to 2GB. I definitely have 5-15 GB tarballs sitting on my ReiserFS partitions.
/xorbe |
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Robert
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| xorbe wrote: | Just maybe the WAV format is limited to 2GB. I definitely have 5-15 GB tarballs sitting on my ReiserFS partitions.
/xorbe |
Hrmm... this must be the case because it does appear that the problem is exclusive to wav files. Weird though, because I do not ever remember having 2gb limits on wav files in Win2k. |
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echeslack
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 4:40 am Post subject: WAV Format Limit |
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IIRC, there is a 32-bit value at the beginning of WAV files that tells the remaining size of the file. So yes, it is a limit of the format.
| Robert wrote: | | xorbe wrote: | Just maybe the WAV format is limited to 2GB. I definitely have 5-15 GB tarballs sitting on my ReiserFS partitions.
/xorbe |
Hrmm... this must be the case because it does appear that the problem is exclusive to wav files. Weird though, because I do not ever remember having 2gb limits on wav files in Win2k. |
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