Re: FW: 2 gig file size limit.

I am running ext3 but I was using wget to get the file. I received a error
at about 2. something gigs saying that maxium file size ex ceded. I know I
have enough room it has 118 gigs free.
Thanks

Luke

On 6/9/06, James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Zuelow [mailto:e5z8652@zuelow.net]
> Sent: Fri 6/9/2006 8:05 PM
> To: James Zuelow
> Subject: Re: 2 gig file size limit.
>
> On Friday 09 June 2006 18:40, Adam bultman wrote:
> > Luke: Your limit isn't kernel based, it is either a limit in your
> > filesystem, or your operating system (i.e. a configuration file
> somewhere)
> >
> > I don't know what the limit on EXT2 is, but I've bumped into the limit
> > before, but the limits were redhat related, not kernel related. It was
> > on an RH 6.2 or RH7.3 system which is ancient, so the solution I found
> > may not be the same one you need.
> >
> > If you are EXT2, you'll want to bump to ext3 at a bare minimum. If
> > you're running a filesystem that natively supports 2+GB files (odds are
> > you are) then you'll want to google for your problem. You'll solve it,
> > eventually.
> >
>
> Wikipedia has a handy comparison chart for current file systems here:
>
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
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>
> Looks like 2GB shouldn't be a problem for anything remotely up to date.
>
> I found this on Google:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open FILE, ">testfile";
> while(1){
> print FILE "Test.\n" or die $!;
> }
>
> and at least on Debian Etch, 2.6.15, I can grow files over 2GB.
>
> ls -lh testfile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 james james 2.4G 2006-06-09 19:19 testfile
>
> (I killed it at this point, didn't see how big it would go)
>
> James
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