Win2k has a limitation when it comes to FAT32, it will not format/deal with partitions that are larger than a set number which I believe is roughly 30gig. This is not a limitation of FAT32, just a limit with Win2k and FAT32.
It should also be noted that with large partitions or lots of files, FAT32 performance rapidly degrades. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@;FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:45 AM > To: William Rose > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem? > > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:22:00PM +1100, William Rose wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently tried to mount a FAT32 file system (formatted to 80GB, > > under Windows 2K) under FreeBSD. The only problem is that the > > filesystem has been truncated to 20GB! Now, booting into Windows > > shows it has also been truncated. Help! > > Sounds strange. > I tried to format a 50GB partition to FAT32 under Windows 2K > just last week, and Windows told me that the partition was > too big and refused to do anything with it. > > > Does FreeBSD trash volumes that it assumes are 'too big'? > > I seriously doubt it. > > Ceri > -- > you can't see when light's so strong > you can't see when light is gone > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
