Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 02:11:57 -0800 | From | Ian Eure <> | Subject | Re: 1GB Limit on EXT2FS? |
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Jacques Gelinas wrote:
> 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 size of the partition is not the problem here. This is the size of a > file. For sure you can create 9gig partition with ext2 now without > problem, but you can't create a 3gig file in it.
I remember trying to mke2fs a 9 gig ext2 drive- I ran out of memory- and this was on a 64mb box :)
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