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From: Fred <fred@arkansaswebs.com>
To: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh@nothing-on.tv>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File System Limitations
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:13:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01082318132000.12319@bits.linuxball> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01082316383301.12104@bits.linuxball> <9m41qd$290$1@sisko.my.home>
In-Reply-To: <9m41qd$290$1@sisko.my.home>

so why dos my filesystem have a 2 GB limit?
Must I specify a large block size or some such when i format?

i run 2.4.9 on redhat7.1 out of the box

Fred

 _________________________________________________ 
On Thursday 23 August 2001 05:58 pm, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> In the ancient scrolls of Usenet, page
> <01082316383301.12104@bits.linuxball>, "Fred" <fred@arkansaswebs.com>
>
> spake thus:
> > I need some basic info on File Size Limitations on filesystems such as
> > ext2/3 and ntfs.
>
> ext2/4 use are 64bit these days.  I guess signed so they'd have limit of
> 2TB per partition/file.
>
> Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-23 21:38 File System Limitations Fred
2001-08-23 22:58 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-08-23 23:13   ` Fred [this message]
2001-08-23 23:18     ` Tony Hoyle
2001-08-23 23:40       ` Fred
2001-08-23 23:50         ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-23 23:52         ` Alan Cox
2001-08-24  3:39           ` Fred
2001-08-24  3:50             ` Nicholas Knight
2001-08-24  3:51             ` Doug McNaught
2001-08-24  3:55             ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-24 15:39           ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-24  0:20         ` Brian
2001-08-24 15:50         ` Walter Hofmann
2001-08-23 23:58       ` Doug McNaught
2001-08-24  0:17         ` Doug McNaught

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