[101484] in RedHat Linux List
Re: File size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Nov 26 19:04:43 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:47:22 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Clare Teoh wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for answers on partition size.
>
> Now on to something else...
>
> Does anyone know what is the maximum filesize for a single file
> on a ext2 filesystem? I am using Redhat 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel.
I have heard from a good source that a file cannot be larger than
2 gigabytes currently.
If file size in bytes is stored in a 32bit signed integer,
the max file size would be 2 gig.
2^31 bytes = 2,147,483,648
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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