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

[Viktor Vasilev]

On Monday 22 May 2006 10:18 leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:35:48AM +0200, Viktor Vasilev wrote:
> > Aehm, false alarm. I'm not sure whos fault was it last time I tried,
> > but with the trunk code and -p6, I can create a 100G FAT32 partition
> > and mount in (on FreeBSD).
> >
> > I'll research better next time :)
>
> This does bring up an interesting point, though.  Does this work with
> Microsoft operating systems now, too?
>
>   If not, we should give a warning about it.

Yes, the 100GB FAT32 partition is recognized and works as normal. It only 
can't be formatted with the partitioning tool shipped with XP.

Sorry for the noise.


Cheers,
Vik
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