ext3 filesystem support files over 4 gb in size?
 

does the ext3 filesystem support files over 4 gb in size?

The limit is 4TB, if you need more use XFS who can handle 16 TB.


BTW, Google said this to me ;-)

Well, I couldn't find it on Google. I don't know why...

I'm having trouble with google on this one as well, and I think to get large files you have to make sure you create the ext3 or ext2 filesystem with 2k or 4k blocks rather than 1k blocks... ie

mke2fs -b 4028 /dev/hdxx

That's for ext2 and you could add -j for ext3, but you would be safer with ext2 for sharing with win I think...

There is also a '-T largefile' option that seems to have something to do with large files at a guess...

Just looking at man mke2fs...

I was able to find this on Google. -- J.W.