Subject | RE: [firebird-support] .FDB file size limit |
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Author | Helen Borrie |
Post date | 2005-04-20T22:58:23Z |
At 05:05 PM 20/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:
Win2K SP2. Existing NTFS partitions apparently didn't get upgraded to
64-bit and choked on 4+Gb files. New NTFS partitions added since to new
HDDs were in 64-bit. Solution (for me) was to back up the dbs and restore
to new disks.
./hb
>Bill,Or that you fell into the same trap I did? I upgraded from NT4 SP 6 to
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> > >> Any ideas why this may be happening?
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>...
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> > >What file system are you using? Fat-32 or NTFS?
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>...
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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
>any problems!
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>I suspect that the volume is actually FAT32.
Win2K SP2. Existing NTFS partitions apparently didn't get upgraded to
64-bit and choked on 4+Gb files. New NTFS partitions added since to new
HDDs were in 64-bit. Solution (for me) was to back up the dbs and restore
to new disks.
./hb