Glyn Davies wrote: > > Mark has a little concerned with his 2GB Linux file size limit. I have > a 2.5GB home dir .gz that verifies okay. Actally, it was a 5GB tar > before that. Anyone know the answer to this? 2Gb seems a little pants. Limit for 2.4.x kernels and glibc >= 2.2 (i.e. almost all recent distributions) is 2TB for ext2/ext3. Previously it was 2GB. Iain