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To: Jeff Chua <jchua@fedex.com>
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Subject: Re: Filesize limit on SMBFS
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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: 23 Nov 2001 16:09:56 +0900
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Jeff Chua <jchua@fedex.com> writes:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Sorry, 3GB partition. But maximum size per file is only 2GB.
> 

FYI,

In the ordinary way, FAT16 is 2GiB per file, and 2GiB per partition.
FAT32 is 4GiB per file. (if sector size is 512B)

However, currently vfat of linux is 2GiB per file.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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