I believe that FAT32 drives have a 4GB limit. I bought an extra external hardrive for backups not realizing that it was FAT32.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Six Fried Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 22, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Christian Gruber wrote: > > the maximum size of a table is the maximum file size of the underlying >> operating system (e.g.: 2 GB). >> > > I'm curious where the 2GB limit is coming from. Are you certain your max > file size is 2GB in your environment? For reference, here are max file sizes > for common filesystems: > > NTFS: 16 terabytes > HFS+ (Mac OS X): 8 exabytes (8 million terabytes) > EXT3: 16GB - 2TB depending on block size > > Is the 2GB a Java limitation? Or perhaps related to some filesystem APIs in > use? >
