well for max file sizes, i found out for win95/win98 its 4Gb-1Kb, and for ntfs its 4Gb-1byte, on ntfs5.1 its toooo big to cause anyone any problems, in the trillion bytes range. So the 2Gb limit i'm having is not the target max file size limits.
NTFS r/w problems only occur when the drive is in the Linux machine, not remotely connected across networks. Am i right in thinking it doesn't effect tape devices because there not block devices ? -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Braddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 December 2002 5:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4 I'm just picking up on the tail end of this thread, so someone might have already answered this. I'm assuming your NT partition is setup with FAT. If so, FAT (Win9x, WinNT) has a 2GB limit. That's why when drives larger than 2GB first appeared, they were set up with multiple 2GB partitions. I believe that FAT32 and NTFS gets around this. Problem is that NTFS is currently read-only in Linux (AFAIK). Joeb
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