Re: File size

[Ian Burrell <iburrell thegrid net>]

On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 05:39:18PM +0800, Clare Teoh wrote:
> 
> Thanks for answers on partition size.
> 

BTW, the ext2fs limit to the size of a filesystem is 1 TB (2^31 512
byte sectors).

> Now on to something else...
> 
> Does anyone know what is the maximum filesize for a single file 
> on a ext2 filesystem? I am using Redhat 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel.
> 

It is 2 GB on 32-bit systems.  With recent kernels on 64-bit systems,
the maximum is quite a bit larger; not 2^64 but significantly larger.

 - Ian

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