From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 11:32:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B043237B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5AE43ED8 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h06JWReK011783; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:32:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:32:27 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andreas Klemm Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats the maximum filesize on fat32 partitions (FreeBSD 4.7) ? Message-ID: <20030106193227.GC54032@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030106182437.GA77160@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030106182437.GA77160@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 06), Andreas Klemm said: > Trying to backup my own files from one fat32 partition to another > fat32 partition. After 4 GB gzip complains, that filesize is too > large. > > What's the max filesize of files on fat32 / ufs filesystems ?? Fat32 filesystems have a 4gb limit. ufs has some huge number that you'll never hit. www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message