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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:30:42 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ext2fs: ext2 vs. ext3
Message-ID:  <20110215123042.00005182@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <20110215121917.GA12068@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr>
References:  <201102141543.p1EFhKwi087340@lurza.secnetix.de> <20110215121917.GA12068@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr>

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:19:17 +0100
Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:

> According to Oliver Fromme:
> > because FAT has a 4 GB limit and NTFS is unsupported on
> > FreeBSD for practical purposes.
> 
> FAT32 ought to be able to get over that 4 GB limit, does it?

FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GB and can support large volumes but I
think Windows (XP at least) refuses to format volumes over 32 GB.

The Microsoft KB article about FAT32 limits:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463
How to format a drive > 32 GB:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-large-hard-drive-fat-fat32/

-- 
Bruce Cran



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