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Re: FileSystem Sizes



> 
> > If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on
> > filesystem sizes...  At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable
> > filesystem size was 2GB.
> > 
> > Has this changed?  i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size?
> 
>  It changed a long time ago. I used a 9 Gb partition without problems more
> than a year ago.

I think it is the file size that was limited to 2GB, not the partition
size.  I suppose this is still the case.

Eric Meijer

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