topic Re: enable large file system on linux in Operating System - Linux

enable large file system on linux

Gerard Powell — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:28:56 GMT

Can somebody tell me the command to enable large file systems in linux.

tks & rgds,
Powell.

Re: enable large file system on linux

Slawomir Gora — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:13:28 GMT

Hi,

what type of file system do you use ?

Default linux fs - ext3 has large files enabled by default.

For limitations of filesystems look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Re: enable large file system on linux

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:05:19 GMT

Shalom Gerald,

largefiles is enabled by default on ext2 and ext3 linux systems.

Transfer a file bigger than 2 GB and check.

SEP

Re: enable large file system on linux

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:46 GMT

Large files are used by default in Linux since VFS. Unless you are using a too old linux version, large files should be working.

There is a difference between file system support, and command/application support. Some commands/applications does not supports files larger than 2GB, like smbclient, compress, and some ftp clients.

Re: enable large file system on linux

Delrish — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:50:50 GMT

There is a patch named "large block device ".
With this patch large scsi discs are detected and sized correctly; and
it's possible create block devices using raid up to 16TB on 32-bit
platforms, and as large as you like on 64-bit platforms.

Alireza

Re: enable large file system on linux

dirk dierickx — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:44:11 GMT

are you having problems with large files?