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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>,
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Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit?
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:30:48AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >=20
> > What is currently FreeBSD's max file size?=20
>=20
> The better question is probably "what is FreeBSD's maximum file system
> size?"  to which the answer is currently "1 Terabyte".  You can make
> sparse files much larger than that, but that's the maximum amount of
> data you can store in a single file(system).

A quick test with truncate(1) shows that you can create sparse files
up to 16TB in size.

Kris

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