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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
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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