[RndTbl] Huge audio .wav files in Red Hat

[Kevin McGregor]

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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