[SWLUG] How to cope with superlarge file

[Steve Hill]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Foeh Mannay wrote:

> I don't know what fs you're using but with a 300GB file, e2fs is going
> to grumble... it apparently has a 2GB maximum file size. I seem to be
> missing part of this thread so I apologise if someone has already
> pointed this out!

Modern systems should be able to deal with files over 2GB - I regularly 
store files in excess of 2GB on both ext2 and ext3 systems.  Although some 
older utilities might have problems actually accessing the file.

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