Re: max file sizes and filesystems

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 dat

max file sizes and filesystems

Hi How big can a single file be in the filesystems FAT32, ext2, and NTFS? 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 exam