The limits for Linux Ext2 filesystems include:
- Filename length
- 255 bytes
- Pathname length
- 1024 bytes
- File size
- 2 GB − 1
- Directory size
- 2 GB − 1; directories are files with inode and filename information as data
- Filesystem size
- 2 GB × 512
- Disk size
- 264 bytes; limited by the disk driver.