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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:39:20 -0700
From:      Troy Ross <a3ot@unm.edu>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max. file size for msdos partition
Message-ID:  <3E487E78.3020502@unm.edu>
References:  <20030210034814.106495D04@ptavv.es.net>

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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?



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