Writing to ext3 fs from XP

[Jonathan Berry]

On 12/4/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:00 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> > > Dylan Semler wrote:
> > >> Also, wasn't the fat32 limit at 2GB?
> > > No. FAT32 has a limit of 4GB. 2GB was for FAT12 & FAT16.
> >
> > Oops. 2GB is for FAT16 only, not FAT12.
>
> BTW, what's the file size limit for NTFS? And is it also affected by
> whether you are running a 64-bit OS or not?

A quick Google search found this page:
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

So, effectively 2 TB is the largest file size because that is the
largest volume size you can have (can't have a larger file then disk
:-)).  But that sounds like perhaps the file size is not limited like
in the FAT filesystems.

Jonathan