This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but...Oracle's documentation strongly recommends not using cooked disk space for their databases. Oracle prefers raw partitions (perhaps they all do). -- Mark "T.C." Thomas Datawarehouse Programmer Hotel Information Technology Cendant Corporation mark.thomas@hit.cendant.com -----Original Message----- From: AZ Pete [mailto:az_pete@ieee-cas.org] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 3:11 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Linux File size limits I need some help from you file system gurus out there. 1) What is the maximum file size that Linux allow. For an Oracle database file for example. 2) What is that maximum size that the entire filesystem can be? XX Terabytes?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peter _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss