Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Don Coleman]

Thanks to everyone who responded.  Tuesday I discovered that in 
preparation for an update being done on another application the next day 
a backup was done before my archive process ran which included my key 
file was was still <2GB.  Lucky lucky me.  Thanks again for the suggestions.

Donald G. Coleman, Consultant
2100 Birchwood Dr.
Indiana, PA 15701
dcoleman at dgcreact.com
(724) 349-6302


Kenneth Brody wrote:

>"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
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>>>Win9x systems (95, 98, and Me) have 2GB filesize limits.  NT-based systems
>>>(NT, XP, 2000, and 2003) do not have these limits.
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>>This isn't strictly correct.
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>>The limit is in the design of the filesystem, not in the underlying OS:
>>*any* OS will limit you to a 2GB filesize *on a FAT32 filesystem*.
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>>Even NT.
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>Yes and no.  Yes, a filesystem that doesn't allow >2GB files obviously
>won't allow it regardless of the O/S.  No, in the sense that Win9X can't
>access >4GB files regardless of the filesystem.  For example, I created
>a huge file on a WinXP box with NTFS, and from a Win98 box on the network,
>I attempted to copy that file, also to NTFS.  Although the copy kept on
>running, the file never got bigger than 4,295,007,744 bytes, which is
>actually 4GB+40,448 for some reason.  Now, the Win98 box sees the file as
>on 40,448 bytes in size, and copy will only copy that many bytes.  (And
>I'm not sure how you would access the file beyond the 2GB boundary, as
>the Win9x API doesn't have any way to specify a file offset >2GB.)
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>>There's a 1 or 2 GB limit on the associated AVI video files, to pick up
>>a tangent of Mark's other thread, but that is unrelated to the
>>filesystem the file lives on.
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