[nflug] Formatting FAT32 partitions

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Also (lost focus on the question), If it were me and tailor this to your 
needs but I would probably slice the drive up between FAT32 and EXT3 
just to give you flexibility between OS's.

Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:

>Can Linux/BSD format FAT32 partitions that are about 250GB? It turns out
>that neither Win2000 nor WinXP can do it (by design).
>
>An even funnier thing, I don't seem to be able to create files larger than
>4GB on this pre-formatted external Drive.
>
>I am thinking about formating it using ext3 or UFS and then making it
>available locally to windows using NFS or Samba. Does anyone have
>experience doing a similar thing? What file system is best for such
>partitions? (250GB USB HDD). Portability is certainly a concern, so even
>if WinBlah doesn't support it, I'd like that at least Linux, FreeBSD, and
>OSX be able to support it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>TAA
>
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