[ale] FAT32 driver and big disk drives

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Is FAT32 under SUSE 8.2 (2.4 kernel) reliable with a 250GB partition?
> 
> Is it likely more reliable with SUSE 9.2 (2.6 kernel), or something in between?
> 
> M$ claims FAT32 supports upto 8 TB under WinXP.
> 
> === Background
> 
> I have a large tar backup tape (~200GB) made from an ext2 filesystem.
> There are roughly 300 files, all 640MB each.  (Sized to fit on a CD).
> 
> I am trying to restore the tar backup to a newly formatted 250GB FAT32
> partition.
> 
> Looking at the tar output (saved to a log file), everything is working
> fine and my file sizes are correct.
> 
> Doing a "ls" on the filesystem shows that a number of the files are 0
> bytes long.
> 
> Unfortunately, all 300 or so files comprise a single logical entity
> that I need to access from a Windows box.
> 
> Linux cannot write to NTFS and none of Windows EXT2 drivers seem
> reliable enough to use for this.
> 
> I guess my next attempt will be to get cygwin to read in the tape.

Samba?


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Until later, Geoffrey