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Grok | This might help someone, someday, and didn't want to lose track of the information. From the filesystem team's internal website: Maximum file size: FAT16 = 2^32-1 (that's 4GB minus one byte) FAT32 = 2^32-1 NTFS = 2^44-64KB (that's 16TB - 64KB and has been tested!) UDF = 2^64-1 And just for kicks... Maximum volume size: FAT16 = 2GB (Win9x) or 4GB (Win2K) FAT32 = 4,177,918 clusters (Win9x) or 2^32-1 sectors (all OSes) NTFS = 2^32 allocation unites (tested to 17TB) Files per volume: FAT16 = 2^16 FAT32 = 2^32 NTFS = 2^32-1 (that's four billion files) Files per directory: FAT16 = 2^16-2 physical directory entries (affected by long filenames) FAT32 = 2^16-2 physical directory entries (affected by long filenames) NTFS = No limit My parenthetical notes are abbreviations of the full explanations given by the filesystem team but retain the essence of the footnotes. NTFS can have 4^32-1 folders, since a folder in the NTFS filesystem is just a file with special attributes. | March 17, 2004, 6:34 PM |
iago | Do they have info about Linux files systems? ext2/ext3/reiserFS? | March 17, 2004, 7:18 PM |