nicketynick Wrote: > Hey Ceejay, can you expand on that a bit? I've got Partition Magic here > - can I use that to format my 250GB drive with FAT32? (maybe 2 > partitions - 1 for back-up, 1 for FLAC files) Which will enable me to > properly use the DLink DNS120 Network Storage Adapter I bought on a > whim, as it only supports NTFS read-only (how useless is that?!?) > Wish I had more time on my hands - I could find these answers by > playing instead of asking! > TIA!
Well, I only meant to say that you *could*, not that you *should* use FAT32. FAT32 has a disk limit of 4TB, though there are suggestions of some limitations appearing at around 124GB for a single partition. There is a file size limit of 4GB and you'll be having cluster sizes of 32k. My understanding (not an expert, though) is that for large file systems you are better off using NTFS, unless you want to use it with old Windows versions or old Linux. I seem to remember that support for NTFS has only relatively recently appeared in Linux, which may explain why your Dlink only supports read-only. And I don't have Partition Magic, you'll have to try it yourself! HTH Ceejay PS - try ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table http://kadaitcha.cx/ntfs.html -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21309 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
