On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Bob Proulx: >> 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.
This is because FAT32 is highly inefficient on partitions above 32GB. You can use third party tools to make partitions even larger than this, and XP won't have an issue reading from them as long as LBA is enabled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiny3+qjl43qkqrbzaadznbfwueppcuptnarg...@mail.gmail.com
