From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 20:44:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D15937B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.abq.com (mail.abq.com [204.252.57.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F5F43FBD for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a3ot@unm.edu) Received: from unm.edu (unverified [204.252.57.64]) by mercury.abq.com (Vircom SMTPRS 5.1.202) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:38:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3E487E78.3020502@unm.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:39:20 -0700 From: Troy Ross User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021112 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max. file size for msdos partition References: <20030210034814.106495D04@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: >How large a file can I create on a FAT32 msdos partition with FreeBSD Stable? > >I would have expected to be able to create a 4GB-2 file, but seem to be >limited to 2GB-1. Is there such a limit and, if not, any idea why I am unable >to create a really large file? Is this a bug? > >I did make a 4GB file by appending 2GB-1 onto a 2GB-1 file, but I can't seem >to do much with this file. > >Thanks, > > A month or so ago I asked a similar question only I was having difficulty just reading a file > 2GB on a NTFS partition. Which brings me to my question is there a file system that can store files greater than 2GB and that can be read from and written to in both windows 2k/xp and FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message