Editing Ext3 (section)

===Size limits===
The maximum number of [[Block (data storage)|blocks]] for ext3 is 2<sup>32</sup>. The size of a block can vary, affecting the maximum number of files and the maximum size of the file system:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.29/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt|title=Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt|author=Matthew Wilcox|work=Linux kernel source documentation}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Block size
! Maximum<br>file size
! Maximum<br>file-system size
|-
| 1 [[Kibibyte|KiB]]
| 16 [[Gibibyte|GiB]]
| 2 [[Tebibyte|TiB]]
|-
| 2 KiB
| 256 GiB
| 8 TiB
|-
| 4 KiB
| 2 TiB
| 16 TiB
|-
| 8 KiB<ref group=limits>In Linux, 8&nbsp;KiB block size is only available on architectures which allow 8&nbsp;KiB [[paging|pages]], such as [[DEC Alpha|Alpha]].</ref>
| 2 TiB
| 32 TiB
|}

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