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

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 22 May 2006 04:18 am, 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.
>
>     Leslie

Yes. The disk driver for FAT32 on Win32 platforms DOES still allow access. The 
crippled portion of their OS is the format utility in Windows XP.