That's true, you can't create big FAT32 partitions under Windows, but you can use proprietary software and Windows accepts these partitions. Few days ago I had an issue with 135GB FAT32 partition which worked fine on Windows, but not OpenBSD. I could mount it without errors but directory listing was only giving me ~10 strange file names with all kinds of weird symbols, in other words partition was unusable, and fsck_msdos failed with "No space for FAT (Cannot allocate memory)"..
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Raimo Niskanen < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > I remember when microsoft released windows 2000 and said that 32GB was > > > the limit and to move to ntfs. I was already using an 80GB drive and > > > the windows 95 manual also contradicted the claims. > > > > Windows will not create FAT filesystems larger than 32GB, so in that > > sense that is the limit. It will read and write to existing > > filesystems however. There is a certain amount of wisdom on their > > part for discouraging use of enormous FAT filesystems. > > I have a 500GB FAT32 USB disk that I had to create from OpenBSD since > as you say Windows will not create it. I can use it from in my case > Windows XP but it take about 2-3 minutes of hard work on the drive > when I plug it in before Windows detects it; I guess they do some > fsck light at plug in time. Then it works. > > I can not use it from OpenBSD, though, because (can not remember > exactly) fsck needs more memory than I have to load the FAT table > and mount will not mount it since it seems dirty... > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
