Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:56:11 +0100 (CET) | | From | Andreas Kostyrka <> | | Subject | Re: 1GB Limit on EXT2FS? |
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Peter. > > >> Is there a way around the 1GB File size limitation on Ext2? > >> I'm pulling a bunch of stuff of a tape from a mainframe, and > >> the files are about 3GB in size. > > > It's actually 2 GB, but the answer, for now, is unfortunately > > "no". Large file support for ext2 is supposed to go into 2.3. > > Something's got me puzzled here - I hadn't realised there was a > limit of either 1G or 2G on ext2 partitions - indeed, one of the > systems I use has an ext2 partition that's 3,952,477,184 bytes in > size, which is somewhere around 3.7G according to my calculations. > Perhaps somebody could advise what the actual situation is? The question was not about partition size, but about file size. And here Linux is limited to 31bit == 2GB.
Andreas
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