On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > I remember when microsoft released windows 2000 and said that 32GB was > > the limit and to move to ntfs. I was already using an 80GB drive and > > the windows 95 manual also contradicted the claims. > > Windows will not create FAT filesystems larger than 32GB, so in that > sense that is the limit. It will read and write to existing > filesystems however. There is a certain amount of wisdom on their > part for discouraging use of enormous FAT filesystems.
I have a 500GB FAT32 USB disk that I had to create from OpenBSD since as you say Windows will not create it. I can use it from in my case Windows XP but it take about 2-3 minutes of hard work on the drive when I plug it in before Windows detects it; I guess they do some fsck light at plug in time. Then it works. I can not use it from OpenBSD, though, because (can not remember exactly) fsck needs more memory than I have to load the FAT table and mount will not mount it since it seems dirty... -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
