> > > > 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 -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
