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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Filesystem size? Date: 13 Apr 1996 00:30:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4kmsip$f8c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <316BD8E8.167EB0E7@amak.rain.fr> <4khrhu$7r@xymox.inquo.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) writes: > Tom Fischer (tfischer@amak.rain.fr) wrote: > : How large a filesystem will FreeBSD allow? > > Not sure, but I'd guess 4GB, since the filesystem is most likely 32-bit. You're guessing wrong. Filesystems are 64-bit, as is off_t. I forgot the exact limitations of filesystems and files though. I think files are limited to 2^32 pages (per 4 KB). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)