extended 2 limits
>
>
>
> Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
> has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing
> that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits
> (which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g.
> Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems.
>
> ======================================================
> Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or
> that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb. If the latter
> than does that mean that a linux disk partition can't be larger than
> 2GB in size? My '/' partition is 4gb large. Am I throwing away the
> last 2gb?
>From http://www.redhat.com:8080/HyperNews/get/fs/ext2intro.html:
Minix FS Ext FS Ext2 FS Xia FS
Max FS size 64 MB 2 GB 4 TB 2 GB
Max file size 64 MB 2 GB 2 GB 64 MB
Max file name 16/30 c 255 c 255 c 248 c
3 times support No No Yes Yes
Extensible No No Yes No
Var. block size No No Yes No
Maintained Yes No Yes ?
So, partitions can be upto 4 TB, files upto 2 GB.
HTH,
Eric
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