Hey millward,
It depends on which filesystem type you have (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ...). For detailed information, see: http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=186 http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~peterc/lfs.html http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
What it boils down to is "really big". You didn't say what size the audio tape was or whether you're recording in stereo/mono, 8-bit or 16-bit samples, or the sampling frequency, but even a 120-minute tape (60 minutes per side) sampled in 16-bit stereo at 44,100 Hz gives you 635,000,000 bytes per hour. See standard CD capacities for reference.
So if each of your files is one side of a 120 minute tape (or smaller) you have nothing to worry about. Even if you record all of your tapes, both sides, back-to-back without stopping the recording when you switch, you likely won't have a problem, except for running out of disk space! Mind you, breaking it up to put it on CDs would be a hassle if you did that.
Go nuts.
millward wrote:
How big can I make a file in Red Hat 7.2 ? I'd like to copy an audio tape to the hard drive in one huge .wav file, and burn it to CD. I've got a few gigs of hard drive space to play with.
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