On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:48:58PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > I believe the filesize limit for ext3 is 2 Gigs. I believe you're not only wrong, you're not even close. I'm fairly confident that a 1 TB limit is more current. Here's a quick creation of a 12GB file. [ewilts@scsftp ewilts]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=big.file bs=1M count=12000 12000+0 records in 12000+0 records out [ewilts@scsftp ewilts]$ ls -lh big.file -rw-rw-r-- 1 ewilts ewilts 12G Oct 14 16:42 big.file [ewilts@scsftp ewilts]$ uname -a Linux scsftp.icrp.mrll.com 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Jul 31 01:25:25 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [ewilts@scsftp ewilts]$ df -T /home Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 ext3 31428256 12805968 17025788 43% /home > Check out xfs Why? -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list