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Any way around the ext2 2GiB limit?



RedHat 6.2 with the Enterprise kernel includes the  large files kernel patch.

Ron Peterson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, E. Wiliam Horne wrote:
> 
> > I tried touse TAR to transfer a Windoze partition from an old disk to a
> > new, but it abended with a "file too large" error.
> >
> > So, the question: is there a way around this, short of making multiple
> > TAR files?
> 
> One option would be to use another filesystem, e.g. reiserfs, XFS, JFS,
> ext3...
> 
> According to the some discussion on the kernel mailing list, 2.4 does
> indeed support > 2GB on ext2 also:
> 
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000710_75.html#8
> 
> Very cool.  I had no idea...
> 
> -- 
> 
> -Ron-
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