[nflug] Formatting FAT32 partitions

Michael Phillips linux478 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 21 11:06:51 EDT 2005


I have formatted a 160gb drive with fat32.  There is a file size limit of 4gb. 


Michael

--- Greg Neumann <DadNeumann at verizon.net> wrote:

> It's not just Windows that can't format the FAT32's that big. Right off 
> hand, I cant' remember what the limit is, but I think it's somewhere 
> around 90-110. It's just an inherent limitation of the FAT32 design. The 
> individual file size limits are also limited, 4gb sounds about right. 
> Separate partitions are the only way around this. I'm sure there's guys 
> that can explain it better than I.
> -Greg
> 
> 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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Michael D. Phillips - A computer science enthusiast
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