[ale] [OT] External USB drives

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Thu Jul 12 12:57:23 EDT 2007


On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:23:56 pm Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > Windows backup didn't work, because it said it couldn't create a file
> > larger than 4Gb
>
> Wow. ?Is that still stuck in the dark ages?
>
> Why would they still have a rather artificial 4 GB restriction on the
> system? ?That's pretty sad.
>
> ? ? --- Mike

fat32 file system.. SO, I should either delete the partition and create 2 
partitions, one for my laptop & one for th desktop, or just do it 
file-by-file. I really wanted to ghost it, but I'm sure that will run up 
against the same file size limitation.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Ubuntu User number is # 12459



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