On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2006, at 7:35 AM, JT Moree wrote:
>> As I recall there are some complications with using volumes larger  
>> than 32G as explained by Bryan during his presentation on disks  
>> and partitions at the SLUUG meetings.  I dont remember the problem  
>> though.
>
> I had always thought that, too.  Thus my earlier post about 2 GB:32  
> GB.  However, last night I created a 60 GB FAT32 partition and  
> split the 55 GB file to that FAT32 partition into several 3.9 GB  
> files, all done with Knoppix.  When I booted into Windows, Windows  
> was able read the partition and the files on it.
>
> I'm currently in the process of concatenating the split files into  
> a single big file on an NTFS partition using "copy /B ..."  We  
> shall see how it goes.

Splitting into 4 GB chunks worked.  On the linux side:

   split -b 3900m -d /mnt/ext3/foo.tar.gz /mnt/fat32/foo.tar.gz.

On the Windows side, where E: is fat32 and F: is NTFS:

   copy /B E:foo.tar.gz.* F:foo.tar.gz

BTW, Linux had no problem creating a FAT32 filesystem on a 60 GB  
partition:

   mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda2

Regards,
- Robert
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