At 11:08 AM 4/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:
Actually, it may still work. mkfs.vfat with the -C option creates a sparse filesystem, so not all the data is there. Only when you try to use the filesystem does the kernel actually allocate the space.
Interesting possibility!
BTW, the tests I did were done with a USB stick not a drive. YMMV.
Confirmed.
Also, you can't put a FAT32 on a 80GB drive, unless you partition the drive so that a single partition is not larger than 32 GB.
W2K &/or XP are the problem formating a FAT32 partition bigger than 32GB. W98 works just fine (hence my reference to a W98 boot disk).
Back to W98 boot floppy <sigh>. Thanks for confirming that mkfs.vfat is broken, however, .. at least it's not somehing I'm doing wrong.
Bummer that mkfs.vfat doesn't work as expected in Knoppix 3.8. Have you tried an earlier version of Knoppix?
I ended up going back to ffs. The main problem I was having is that the system would not *DETECT* the drive unless it was formatted. Once I put the HDs in a test system and formatted them, everything is honkey-dorey. (Trying to keep OLD terms from getting lost.)
Formatting them ffs also takes about 1/10 the time of FAT or NTFS in any case.
Thanks for the replies!
Lee
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