2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[Matheesha]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:49, Shashi Bhusan Patra wrote:
> Kevin Krieser wrote:
> 
> >Actually, FAT32 has a 4GB limitation, at least under Windows OS's.
> >
> well, i have a  FAT32 partition of 12 GB size.
> 
> 


Please don't confuse file size limits and partition size limits of
FAT32. As per this article
http://www.win2000mag.net/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=38803 it clearly
explains that FAT32 supports a max file size of approximately 4GB. FAT32
partition size limit is 2TB. The reason Windows 2000 and above *prevent*
you from creating FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB is because larger
partition sizes use larger cluster sizes thereby wasting space
(depending on the sizes of the files stored on the partition). NTFS is a
more efficient file system in this scenario and hence Microsoft
encourage usage of NTFS.

Unfortunately this answer doesn't explain why the user was unable to
copy files larger than 2GB in the Linux environment.

M@