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 > >