[102030] in RedHat Linux List
Re: File size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Burrell)
Tue Dec 1 01:26:45 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:26:02 -0800
From: Ian Burrell <iburrell@thegrid.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <365D21C6.BA16C02B@mail.tke.po.my>; from Clare Teoh on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 05:39:18PM +0800
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On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 05:39:18PM +0800, Clare Teoh wrote:
>
> Thanks for answers on partition size.
>
BTW, the ext2fs limit to the size of a filesystem is 1 TB (2^31 512
byte sectors).
> 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.
>
It is 2 GB on 32-bit systems. With recent kernels on 64-bit systems,
the maximum is quite a bit larger; not 2^64 but significantly larger.
- Ian
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