unzipping: file size limit exceeded
 

I'm doing LFS this weekend. /dev/hda2 was about 30 Gb, so I used parted to shrink it for some extended partitions (/dev/hda5 @ 5Gb and /dev/hda6 @ 5Gb). When I am using bunzip2 to unzip some large .bz2 files (like linux kernel or gcc) I get an error "File size limit exceeded". I have figured out that if I ctrl-alt-F2 and log in as root, that I am able to unzip the file. So root does not have these restrictions.

I'll bet this is the reason I couldn't download some iso's the other day. I was trying to put them on one of these extended partitions. Everytime the download got to 102.4 Mb, gFTP would quit downloading and the program would close itself.

Where do I go to change this limit? Searches on Google brought up a lot of people having this problem using mk2fs, but their cures were patches to files (I don't really understand how to use those).

TIA

denny peeples

Do you have quota installed?

I went into root account and typed "quota" and got the response that root had no limits (or something to that effect). If this is the problem, how do I turn quota's off? I am the only user on this PC, and I don't need it.

denny

Log as your normal user and type
quota -v
If you get something (not error message) please post it here.

If not quota's, it could be a Bash imposed limit. Run this command: ulimit -a

Look if you have a limit for the "File size" - this is the maximum size of files you are allowed to create.

See the bash man page how you can change this.

peeples @ /home/peeples >> What do YOU want ?!?
quota -v
Disk quotas for user peeples (uid 506): none

ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) 100000
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1024
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

SO, I guess it's a limit imposed by bash. Going to do some research on Google right now...

dbp

interesting...
 

I've never seen this problem... kindof interesting though.

I looked through "man bash" and found this:

ulimit [-SHacdflmnpstuv [limit]]
Provides control over the resources available to
the shell and to processes started by it, on sys-
tems that allow such control.
(later)

If limit is given, it is the new value of the spec-
ified resource (the -a option is display only). If
no option is given, then -f is assumed.

-f The maximum size of files created by the
shell

so it looks like maybe you should get rid of "ulimit -<whatever>" from your $HOME/.bash_profile or $HOME/.bashrc

I think that may do the job....

good luck

I went into $HOME/.bash_profile and added a line:
ulimit -f unlimited

Next login, I got a "You don't have permission to do that" kinda answer. SO, I put :
sudo ulimit -f unlimited

(I'm already set up in sudoers). Then I got a "sudo: ulimit: File or directory not found".

Then, I decided to put it in /etc/profile instead of my .bash_profile (that way ALL logins would have the new limit), but I got the same results. I must be doing something wrong. BTW, I did a "locate ulimit", and only found 2 header files(*.h) and 2 man pages, so I did updatedb, tried again, same result. So, I can't even find the offending program...

I REALLY love my new LFS. It is way faster than RH7.3 to get to the CLI login. Plus I learned so much, I think I might have to be inducted into the "guru" clan soon... (I think the more I learn, the more I realize that I have even more to learn...)

I don't know what you should do... the only thing I can say is that when I did "man ulimit" it gave me info on the header file, but it said it was outdated. If you do "man bash" way down there you'll find it.

I was wondering where it would be set... it seems to me that if you put it in ~/.bash_profile or something, that the user would be able to change it.... kindof goes against what it's used for?

SOLVED: file size limit exceeded
 

I figured it out!!! I had installed a program that "helps" with security called Bastille. It asks a whole bunch of questions and then changes your system to make it more secure. One of the questions had to do with limiting user abilities. I turned off Bastille and everything is fixed now. SO, users beware. I'll rerun the setup program later, and answer the question differently...

Thanks everybody for the help.