Subject Re: [firebird-support] .FDB file size limit
Author Sam Hunt
Leyne, Sean wrote:

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>>>What file system are you using? Fat-32 or NTFS?
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>>NTFS
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>Are you **positive**?
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>I had a client DB running on Win2000 which has over 5GB is size, without
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>I suspect that the volume is actually FAT32.
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>Sean
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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you cannot create a file of any type on a FAT32 larger than 4GB.
try backing up a collection of files greater in size than 4GB on a FAT32
machine using MSBackup and you'll see that I'm telling you the truth.
Sam