Correct,

There is no 2 GB file size limit in ext3 like fat32 has.

-joel

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:31 -0700, Roger Rustad wrote:
> I'm assuming that ext3 won't have any problems with gigantic files, right?
> 
> Diehl, William wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > Yes, the ext3 drivers are awesome! Too bad we can't get NTFS drivers in
> > linux that work as well.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > William
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ________________________________
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> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel Brauer
> > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:45 PM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [909linux] problems reading FAT32 drive
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > How big is the drive?  Did you format it in windows?  Most likely
> > Swissknife, has a feature that allows you to access the drive from the
> > machine you formatted it on.
> > 
> > As an alternative.  you can format it ext3 and use the excellent drivers
> > available for Windows to access the drive from windows.  Let me know if
> > you need a link, and I'll hunt one down. 
> > 
> > -joel
> > 
> > On 8/19/06, Roger Rustad <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > I FAT32 formatted a humongous drive with Swissknife v3 (in order to get
> > around FAT32 restrictions).
> > 
> > For whatever reasons, I can't write to this drive like I can with any
> > other FAT32 drive.  I tried to chmod 777 everything, but no luck. 
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