Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:19:09 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: file size limit |
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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906030029030.19262-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX) wrote: > Hi there.
>> What's the max file size on ext2 ?
> Depends on the architecture - 2 Gigabytes on 32-bit architectures, > somewhere around 9,200 Exabytes on 64-bit architectures.
Unfortunatelly not so big :-(( Only 16Gb with 1K blocks or such (triple-indirect blocks structure limit). It's worked on but for now there are this "small" limit exists in Ext2 ...
>> A friend of mine told me that he cannot create files larger than >> 1GB on an intel box (1KB blocks).
> I have had several files in the 1.2G to 1.6G range on my system, which > uses 1k blocks, so his problems are not due to any ext2 limits.
I confirm. I also had 2Gb file (it was result of wrong tar command :-)
>> (I can't verify that because my largest partition is 512KB)
> I have floppies with higher capacity than that...presumably you meant > 512M rather than 512K !!!
:-))
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