[ale] Linux/Nt compatible large file systems

[David Hamm]

Wow, thanks.  I misread that page when I googled for info on FAT32.  This 
looks promising.

On Friday 12 March 2004 09:03 pm, Mark Angeli wrote:
> From what I have found, that is a Windows XP limitation.
> Not a fat32.
>
> "In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum
> FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB.
> Therefore, you must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB.
> However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32
> volumes formatted by other operating systems."
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-u
>s/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_
>fil_tdrn.asp
>
>
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:01, Geoffrey wrote:
> > David Hamm wrote:
> > > Thanks but Fat32 supports a max partition size of 32 gigs.
> >
> > Thanks, I was not aware of that.
> >
> > > On Thursday 11 March 2004 10:29 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > >>David Hamm wrote:
> > >>>Hi folks,
> > >>>
> > >>>I would like to write out 60+ gigs to an external USB drive and have
> > >>> an NT box read drive.  I did some research on writing to NTFS and it
> > >>> doesn't look promising.  Does any body know of a large file system
> > >>> Linux can write to and Win2k/NT/XP can read?
> > >>
> > >>What's wrong with fat32?  As I recall, it's max disk size is around 2
> > >>terabytes is it not?
> > >
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