[CentOS] File Size

Wed Jul 25 13:40:55 UTC 2007
Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz>

Thank you Jim,

How can I find the current block size and file system type ?
 


Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz> wrote:
>> What is the largest file size that can be created on Linux ?
>> is there any limitation ?
>
> This depends on several things, including the architecture (x86_64 vs
> x86) and the blocksize used for the filesystem.
>
> For ext3, it breaks out like this ->
>
> Block size     Max file size     Max filesystem size
> 1KiB               16GiB         2TiB
> 2KiB               256GiB        8TiB
> 4KiB               2 TiB          16TiB
> 8KiB              16TiB                 32TiB
>
>