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Subject: Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS
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At 02:35 23/11/01, Jeff Chua wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > VFAT does have a 2GB limit, AFAIK, but I could be wrong.
>
>Use "mkdosfs -F32" or use msdos fdisk,format to get >2GB.
>
>I'm using 3GB for VFAT partition.

You mean you have 1) a single file with size 3GiB on a large VFAT partition 
or 2) the VFAT partition is 3GiB in itself?

1) is what we are talking about being limited to 2GiB.

2) Should indeed work fine under Linux and I don't think anyone is saying 
that this doesn't work.

Anton


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