On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:09 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > On Jul 10, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Robert Citek wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Eric Martin wrote: >>> Why don't you just use FAT32? >> >> 2 GB file size limit and 32 GB filesystem limit. > > I may be mistaken about that. I read that somewhere and now can't > find the source.
Found it. Turns out that the source was MS's own KnowledgeBase[1]. The fifth bullet item states "You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. ... If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it." That doesn't mean that you can't have a FAT32 that's larger than 32 GB, but rather that you just can't do it with Windows XP. You'll have to use some other tool ... like 'mkfs.vfat -F 32' under linux. [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/ Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
