Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998,  Raymond A. Ingles wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> 
> > ======================================================
> > 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?
> 
>  No, no, partitions can be more than 2GB, but an individual file on the
> partition can't be more than 2GB. ISTR hearing about an 18 gig partition
> on a RAID system somewhere... turned me green with envy. :->

How about 4TB?? That is the maximum ext2fs size. (Reference: previous
post)

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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