Is there a size limit on a text file?

Question

Duplicate of: Is there an upper limit on .txt file size?

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What is the limit to how much you can write to a text file? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

There is no limit, other than the size of your disk, and your file system limitations on a file.

For example, file size limits:

• NTFS: 16 TiB - 64 KiB
• Ext4: 16 TBs
• FAT32: 4GB - 1

On disk, there is no difference between a text file and any other type of file. They all just store bytes of data.

The only conceptual difference when writing to a binary file and a text file is that when a write operation is performed on a text file, a \n character may be replaced with a \r\n character, or some other line ending character(s).