RE: What is max size of ext2fs?

Antonio M. Trindade (trindade@student.dei.uc.pt)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:00:08 +0000 (WET)

AFAIK, the ext2fs is a 32-bit fs, so, if you take into account that the
max size for a block is 4Kb, tem 4kB*2^32 is 16384Gb, ou 16TB.

Regards,
Antonio Trindade.

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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>
> NO, this is CERTANTLY WRONG.
>
> I dont know the exact numbers (it was posted a bit back, do a search)
>
> But it depends on the Block size chosen (default is 1k but upto 4k is easy
> on x86 on 8k on alpha I recall) and the arch (32 vs 64 bit).
>
> 1TiB might be the lowest limlt (1k,32bit) but there is no reason not to
> format such a FS with 4k blocks.
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> >
> > 1TB, in theory. Several hundred gig is certainly practical.
> >
> > J
>
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