[MEncoder-users] problem with big files

[Raimund Berger]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> At least 16GB, usually 2 TB. Though those values were from Linux 2.4
> times, so they may have been extended again.

Afaik, this still applies, to both ext2 and ext3. Max size depends on
the partition block size, and for the common 4KB bs it's 2TB, as you
say. E.g. for my root partition I find

$ tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep "Block size"
Block size:               4096

For current stable, details here
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt;h=4333e836c4951459d9145213938bbca78644d63d;hb=HEAD
line 299 and following.