Once upon a time martin f krafft said... > i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my > cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win > FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: > > piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1 > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system > > i can't create NTFS filesystems, right? so how the flyingfood do > i make a filesystem of that size for braindeadOS?
Tell mkfs.vfat to create a FAT32 filesystem: # mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hdc1 I did this the other day on a 20GB partition with no problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
