Jochen Schulz wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > It is "just a disk drive". There isn't anything magical about it > > having come with FAT32. That is just a mild convenience so that the > > casual MS user does not need to format it themselves. But they could > > and you could too. > > No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow > formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesystem. It's > either NTFS or… NTFS.
So... FAT32 supports up to 8T in size, MS-XP can use it, but MS-XP won't format it? Wow. I did not know that XP had that limitation. Thanks for that tidbit. I will add it to my list of MS problems. In any case, it just makes recommending moving to a native filesystem like ext3 that much easier. Bob
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