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Any way around the ext2 2GiB limit?



On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote:

> I tried touse TAR to transfer a Windoze partition from an old disk to a
> new, but it abended with a "file too large" error.
>
> So, the question: is there a way around this, short of making multiple
> TAR files?

One option would be to use another filesystem, e.g. reiserfs, XFS, JFS,
ext3...

According to the some discussion on the kernel mailing list, 2.4 does
indeed support > 2GB on ext2 also:

http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000710_75.html#8

Very cool.  I had no idea...

-- 

-Ron-
https://www.yellowbank.com/





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