Hi Aitor, many people have reported that FAT is slow for very big partitions and that NTFS is better for that.
I regularly use FAT32 for Data partitions of around 5Gb and is quite fine, using it in Linux or XP that have a good cache. On my notebook I have XP instaled also in a FAT partition because of mantainance. It works reasonably well, but the truth is that I use XP only eventualy :) > One question, did you happen to manage how does WinNT perform with > such an "enlarged" FAT system? I supose that this is probably plain incompatible. There are allways limits in old things simply because 500Gb was just unthinkable at the time. Cheers, Alain >> >> I just tested the FreeDOS format on the big disk. IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY :) >> >> the previous problem was due to a too old kernel. I used the one from >> Rugxulo labeled as fat-security. >> >> - Fdisk did everything as expected >> SATA2 500Gb disk one 100% partition >> - Format did everything as expected both in quick mode of surfece scan >> Warning: Each FAT is 119208 sectors, > 16MB-64k, Win9x incompatible >> FreeDOS goes well beyond old MS-DOS limits >> - Disk booted normaly >> - Machine is an Athlon X2 4400+ dual core, with 2Gb RAM. I may be that >> this insane amount of memory (matches the insane size of the disk) >> helped to avoid the reported "too big disk" message. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
