Re: mke2fs problem

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> >From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs
> (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I
> believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps
> that's causing you problems as well... 

IIRC, 2 gigs is the limit on a file, not a filesystem.  I believe the
limit on the filesystem is in the terabytes.  Probably more than any
harddrive most people will run (although nasa's daac would have problems 
:-).

Brandon

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