[H-GEN] Problem copying files to a Wondoze NT server.

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Wednesday 18 September 2002 11:53, you wrote:
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> > The problem is that when the file size on the Windoze server gets to 2GB
> > in size, the copy process just hangs.
>
> The problem isn't linux it's windows, the size limit on 1 file is 2G and
> there is no known way around it.

Microsoft claim that under NT4, NTFS filesystems have a file and volume size 
limit of 2^64 bytes (16 exabyte).  We routinely play around with Oracle 
database files up to 30GB on NTFS partitions.

There is a 2GB partition limit under DOS and Win9x, but 4GB under NT4 for FAT 
filesystems.  And, just in case anyone is interested, Win2k supports FAT32 
volumes up to 8 terabyte, but M$ supplied tools won't format a volume larger 
than 32 gigabyte in FAT32.



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