Re: 1GB Limit on EXT2FS?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:00:31 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Peter.

>> Is there a way around the 1GB File size limitation on Ext2?
>> I'm pulling a bunch of stuff of a tape from a mainframe, and
>> the files are about 3GB in size.

> It's actually 2 GB, but the answer, for now, is unfortunately
> "no". Large file support for ext2 is supposed to go into 2.3.

Something's got me puzzled here - I hadn't realised there was a
limit of either 1G or 2G on ext2 partitions - indeed, one of the
systems I use has an ext2 partition that's 3,952,477,184 bytes in
size, which is somewhere around 3.7G according to my calculations.
Perhaps somebody could advise what the actual situation is?

Best wishes from Riley.

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