[ros-dev] Does ROS currently support Ext2?

TwoTailedFox twotailedfox at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 21:12:15 CEST 2005


Actually, that 4194304 bytes is 4MB (~4 Million Bytes), not 4GB. ^^

On 6/5/05, Andrew Smith <espadav8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm not a developer (at least not on ROS), but I have been
> reading the list for some time now, but this just popped up at me...
> 
> On 04/06/05, James Tabor
> <jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> wrote:
> > "Only 4194304 bytes copied to drive C:. Does that number look anything familiar
> > to anyone? How about 400000 Hex."
> >
> > That is the only bug I could find with my tests.
> 
> Is this a bug with the ext2? because that's 4GB which is the limit a
> FAT32 drive file can be, so if a file is copied over that is larger
> than 4GB it will be cut off at that point anyway.
> 
> So if that is the only bug then there aren't any bugs really. Maybe a
> warning should be thrown if a file > 4GB is attempted to be
> copied/moved to a FAT drive (I know windows does this, but the error
> it reports is incorrect. I recently tried coping some 4.3GB files from
> an NTFS partition to a FAT partition and windows reported that the FAT
> drive "Doesn't have enough free space" despite the fact there was
> about 125GB free).
> 
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