Re: file size limit

Thiago Madeira de Lima (jungle@sti.com.br)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:47:59 -0300 (EST)


If i raise the block size in a partition so i can get a file
larger than 2G? Like using 4K block size will have 8G for max file size ?

Thanks.
Thiago Lima

> >> 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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