[parted-devel] no warning when formatting >32G fat32 partitions

[Mike Massonnet]

Sun, 21 May 2006 20:17:06 -0400 - "Gary L. Greene Jr."
<greeneg at phoenuxos.com> wrote :

> On Sunday 21 May 2006 07:16 pm, Viktor Vasilev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to create and format a big, 120GB fat32 partition and the
> > operation completed successfully. The problem is that I'm unable to
> > mount the partition afterwards. I tried creating such a big
> > partition with the windows partition editor under XP and it refused
> > (gave me only NTFS as FS option). Now that I googled a bit and
> > educated myself about fat32 it is clear that there is a 32GB
> > boundry, beyond which fat32 is unusable. Shouldn't parted give a
> > warning in such situations?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vik
> 
> Fat32 partitions CAN be larger than 32G. The reason that the other OS
> doesn't is the vole trying to force people to use NTFS which is more
> restrictive for Linux.
> 

Have a look at this wikipedia page: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

Cheers,
Mike.
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