snapshot fails with "Filesize limit exceeded"
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Mar 22 06:42:44 UTC 2007
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:07:11PM -0700, David King wrote:
> When trying to create a snapshot (per the handbook at <http://
> www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html>),
> the creation of the snapshot fails:
>
> /mnt/big# mount -u -o snapshot /mnt/big/.snap/"`date`" /mnt/big
> mount: /mnt/big: Filesize limit exceeded
>
> It takes about a minute to fail. This is a 300GB drive:
>
> /mnt/big/.snap# df -h /mnt/big
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 269G 134G 113G 54% /mnt/big
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
Your account has a filesize limit set? Check limit(1).
Kris
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