On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Sat Sep 16, 2000 at 09:10:37AM -0500, Ellick Chan wrote: > > > > Just out of curiousity, what's the file size limit with ext2? I think > > > it's 2GB but I need to know for sure. Does anyone know? > > > Ext2 is a 32-bit file sys, which can address up to 2^31 kb, or 2gb, as > > well as reiserfs. A quick way to find out the file size limit is to type > > 'dd if=/dev/null of=testfile', then 'ls -l testfile'. This only works That'll give you a zero-byte file. I just tried it. An EOF sent to "dd" (which is the output of /dev/null; see its manpage) will result in "0+0 records in; 0+0 record out." You need to do: dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile instead. That will give you an infinite-size file. -- Asheesh. > > if you have more or equal than the file size limit in free space. > > So reiserfs can only have up to 2GB for file sizes as well? I thought > it would be bigger? > > I'll try that test once I can free up enough space on a drive over > here. Thanks! Hey! Try my test first! :-) > > --
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