Re: Subject: [debian-knoppix] beating ghost, Speed & Size Limit
If I'm thinking correctly, Windows FAT16 has the 2GB Limit, not FAT32.
Older versions of DD had a 2GB limit, but I believe the newer versions
do not have this problem.
Tony Bates
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 06:44, Michael Mauch wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>
> > One thing that comes to mind is that Linux generally doesn't deal with files
> > over 2gb in size, does Debian?
>
> Linux has no problem with files > 2 GB, since years.
>
> > If not, then what happens is the file just keeps on copying, or some
> > other random event. I've had the same problem copying a backup file
> > from a windows machine that was 2.5gb. The copy stopped after a couple
> > of hours when it has used the 17gb free space!
>
> Windows FAT32 has a 2 GB limit, maybe Samba has such a limit, too. But
> Linux (2.4.x with glibc-2.2.x) works fine with larger files.
>
> Regards...
> Michael
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