[ale] [OT] External USB drives

[Geoffrey]

Greg Canter wrote:
> IIRC, only MS Windows has the 4GB limitation for formatting a drive with
> FAT32 ? you can use Linux to format the entire drive FAT32 so it is
> compatible with all major systems if you want.  That is how several drives
> are formatted that I have purchased ? they are in the FAT32 format and they
> most definitely are greater than 4GB.

It's not the size of the file system, it's the max size of a file.

> 
> - Greg Canter
> 
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> On 7/12/07 1:15 PM, "Steve Brown" <braino420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 7/12/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Get rid of the fat32 partition, it's going to do more harm than good. Not only
>> because of the 4GB limit, but also because you need a good stable /journaling/
>> fs if you're going to be using this to backup your data. I like the idea of
>> two partitions, but for different reasons. As someone suggested on this list
>> awhile ago, have one very small fat32 partition that only holds the winders
>> drivers for the ext2/ext3 fs, and then just make the rest ext3. You really
>> don't even need the small partition if this will be for your own personal use
>> (I believe the person who suggested this needed to be able to share with
>> relatives), just install the drivers and you're done. Sure sounds better than
>> copying file-by-file *cringe*
>>
>> HTH,
>> Steve B
>>
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