Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

[Agustin Navarro <anavarro vip eniac com>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, terry barnum wrote:

           >I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our
           >RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive.
           >
           >Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I
           >thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files. So I tried to ftp
           >the file over using the built-in NT ftp client and FTPd--same problem. I
           >then started an FTP server on the NT box and tried pulling the file onto
           >the Linux machine. It also died at 2147482472 bytes.
           >
           >Is there an issue trying to copy files larger than 2 gigs? Is there a
           >switch I can throw somewhere that will change this behavior?
           >
           >I tried searching the RedHat website support section but it appears to be down.
           >


Terry:

I do not remember exactly but I think that the maximum file size depends
on the number of blocks allocated to the file. If you format the drive with a
bigger block size, you can have a file greater than 2 GB.

To do that, read man mke2fs



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