Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:50:37 -0700 | From | Michal Jaegermann <> | Subject | max partition size |
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Who knows for sure what is the current upper limit on ext2/ext3 file system size (4KiB blocks as this is what tools will accept)? It definitely is not 1 TB as we were making working partition nearly twice that. But practice seems to indicate that 2 TB, or whereabout, can be too much. Is this a property of a file system or we bumping into block device boundaries or this are just tools?
BTW - mke2fs goes most of the way but gets stuck eventually when writing inode tables if that it is too close to 2 TB. Yes, there are people who really want that much of a file system or maybe even more. :-) This was not done for a sake of a record.
Michal
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