On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:58:57 +0100 Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 > > GB. Some other file systems can handle larger files. > > > > > what is the source of that "knowledge"? > > Actually I have no that big file on any of my Fedora machines, but > even on my old RH7.2 system with ext3 filesystem I had no problem with > a backup tarball > 2GB size. I do: [john@starfleet john]$ du -h /space/backup/starfleet/emulators/emulators.backup.20040311 24G /space/backup/starfleet/emulators/emulators.backup.20040311 Works just fine on an ext3 filesystem here... -- -John (JohnThompson@xxxxxxxxxx)
