RE: dbexport failed with "Disk space full" message.

Just in case, have you looked at your 'ulimit'? -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Salomon [mailto:JSalomon@bn.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:17 PM Posted To: informix Conversation: dbexport failed with "Disk space full" message. Subject: dbexport failed with "Disk space full" message. Hi Family. I just tried a dbexport on a database with some enormous tables. The dbexport failed with the message: Disk space full. Clearly, the dbspaces and the file system I am unloading from and to are far from full. Only at the second failure did it occur to me to look at the .unl files. ls -lt indicated the most recently written .unl file to have just hit the 2-GB boundary. My expletives at this revolting develpoment aside, I went looking for a similar victim in this newsgroup and I found a long thread, started by one CHENUS Thierry, that lamented over it. The only way around this stupid restriction in dbexport was to export to tape. And, according to the info in the thread, there is still a 2- GB restriction on the amount of data dbexport will write to a tape, even a 40-GB tape. I am still using 7.2 (don't worry! We're upgrading soon to 9.2! ;-) but it seems that 7.3 is no smarter. I don't know if it improves in 9.2 either. Next straw to clutch at: Does anyone out there know of a utility to replace dbexport and gets around the 2-GB constraint? Has anyone (i.e. Jonathan? Art?) written one? Thanks much, folks. -- +----- Jacob Salomon - DBA JSalomon@bn.com - --------------------------+ |------------------- Bulletin Board Announcement ----------------------| | Congregants will please note that the bowl at the back of the church | | bearing the sign "For the Sick" is for monetary contributions only. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.