On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0200, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Hi > > How big can a single file be in the filesystems FAT32, ext2, and NTFS? 2GB FAT32 & ext2, AFAIK, under Linux, without special patches. LFS patches are available, though I'm not sure of terms. NTFS nominally supports data structures to 16 PB (petabytes). I believe there are lower limits imposed by other system limitations, even were sufficient disk available. > My question comes from an idea to create one or more files and mount > them as loopbackdevices after formatting them. This is a standard > operation and there are some FAQs describing the procedure on the LDP > web pages for example. If I have a big enough windoze partition > perhaps can I have parts of a Debian mirror (in one or more files) on > that partition (and bring home with my laptop for installing/updating > my desktop machine). For most update purposes, a couple hundred megs should be far more than sufficient. You might also look at apt-zip, which specifically provides this functionality. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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