Maximum Sizes of File Systems (On-Disk Format) File System File Size [Byte] File System Size [Byte] Ext2 or Ext3 (1 kB block size) 234 (16 GB) 241 (2 TB) Ext2 or Ext3 (2 kB block size) 238 (256 GB) 243 (8 TB) Ext2 or Ext3 (4 kB block size) 241 (2 TB) 244 (16 TB) Ext2 or Ext3 (8 kB block size) (systems with 8 kB pages (like Alpha)) 246 (64 TB) 245 (32 TB) ReiserFS 3.5 232 (4 GB) 244 (16 TB) ReiserFS 3.6 (under Linux 2.4) 260 (1 EB) 244 (16 TB) XFS 263 (8 EB) 263 (8 EB) JFS (512 Bytes block size) 263 (8 EB) 249 (512 TB) JFS (4 kB block size) 263 (8 EB) 252 (4 PB) NFSv2 (client side) 231 (2 GB) 263 (8 EB) NFSv3 (client side) 263 (8 EB) 263 (8 EB)