John Beckett wrote:
Yongwei Wu wrote:
Even FAT32 supports files much larger than 4GB.
Not true. FAT32 supports files up to 4 GB.
Sorry I shot my mouth off there - I realised my blunder about ten
minutes after sending. I haven't actually used a FAT32 partition
for over ten years, and was confusing the maximum size of a FAT32
partition with its maximum file size.
On NTFS of course, as you mentioned, the sky is the limit. I
have made files larger than 4GB, and have written a couple of
simple programs to work with such files, so my basic point is
valid. The Win32 API supports files much larger than 4GB.
John
...not to mention Unix/Linux, with its variety of not only FAT12, FAT16, FAT32
and NTFS but also ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc., supported. I see a backups.tgz
file of 7GB (which normally isn't mounted) so "big files" exist here too.
Best regards,
Tony.
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