With a 2.4 series kernel and modern filesystems you can go MUCH larger.

I have a tar file from a backup on an ext3 filesystem that is almost 30Gb in 
size. (Mandrake 8.0)

The last two boxes we set up here, Mandrake 8.2, are using reiserfs and I have 
  a number of files in the 5-10GB range.

Not all utilities will handle files bigger than 4Gb - yet. I use rsync (over 
ssh) to move the really large files from box to box.


Elburn@aol.com wrote:
> What is the maximum file size in Linux.  Is it limited to 2gb as it was 
> in MSDOS ( I hope not as using WIN98 Dos session I can write 4gb). 
> 
> How do I get around this limit?  Which disk format allocates blocks 
> instead of bytes?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Al Templeton



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