Actually, last I heard for Windows NT 4 was that there was a 4 TB limit on
NTFS.  That may have changed for Windows 2000.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

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From: <Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21765] file limit?


> Actually, the file size limit is file system limit, not a Linux
> limit.  ext2 has a file size limit of 2GB on 32-bit systems.
> ReiserFS is larger, I believe, and if you're running
> Windows, NTFS has unlimited file size on 32-bit systems.
>
> It all depends on the quality of the file system.
>
> Nick
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> dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu, on 09/28/2000 07:37:41 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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> Subject: [TCLUG:21765] file limit?
>
> Hmmm... trying to create a 4 GB tarball on a RedHat 6.2 box.  At about 1
> GB, it just sort of stops.  I know Linux has a file size limit.  Anyone
> know if that limit is 1 GB?
>
> Gabe
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