migrating from Windows 7

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:50:40 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>You might want to consider replacing your computer, as, if it is a
>Legacy BIOS based system, it might not be able to cope with larger
>file sizes (>4GB)

Hi,

that is incorrect. Using MBR a drive is limited to 2 TiB, but using a
file system such as ext4 the file sizes can be way larger than 4GB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

This is on a modern UEFI machine, but it's booted without UEFI from an
MBR drive.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ base64 /dev/urandom | head -c 8589934592 > Desktop/8GiB.txt 
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo parted -l | grep Partition
[sudo] password for rocketmouse: 
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
Partition Table: msdos
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ /bin/ls -hl Desktop/8GiB.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 8.0G Nov  8 09:53 Desktop/8GiB.txt

Regards,
Ralf