On Sunday 24 October 2004 4:08 pm, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Sunday, Oct 24, 2004, at 15:04 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
> > On Sunday, Oct 24, 2004, at 14:24 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
> >> 2) use Win95 FAT16 or Win95 FAT32 file systems ("c" and "e" on
> >> fdisk).
> >
> > Uh, never mind. For some reason Mac OS X will no longer mount the
> > FAT32 partition. According to the OS X Disk Utility program, OS X
> > does recognize the partition as Windows FAT32, it just refuses to
> > mount it.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts on how to share 160 GB between Linux and OS X?
>
> Turns out that the FAT32 cannot be LBA type ("c" in fdisk). Instead it
> must be the straight FAT32 ("b" in fdisk). Here's the partition layout
> that I used that seemed to work:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1 1 9727 78132096 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/sdc2 9728 18238 68364607+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/sdc3 18239 18482 1959930 b Win95 FAT32
>
> There also seems to be a size restriction under OS X. While I was able
> to mount the 80 GB partition, a 160 GB partition under OS X. I'll go
> back and investigate it later.
I would strongly urge you against FAT32. I used it on an external drive, &
suffered corruption & lost everything on the drive. FAT32 is a pretty lousy
filesystem for large drives. If you can use ext2 or, better, a journaled
filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs, I would.
For a USB thumb drive of a few 100 MB, FAT32 is fine. But not for large
drives.
Scott
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