On 10/20/05, Carl Hartung
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:00, Greg Freemyer wrote:
... FAT32 has a 2 GB limit, so definately don't use a FAT32 volume as a staging area.
Please qualify this statement, Greg. I don't think its entirely accurate. I hate to "nit-pick" but this is the kind of misinformation that one person reads, accepts as gospel, passes it along to family and friends who, in turn, pass it along to their family and friends until it circles the globe a couple of times and ends up back here as a question. And the first one to pick it up and pass it along can have his life ruined, too:
Carl, I don't know what you mean? As far as I know the FAT 32 filesystem has a 2 GB max file size. Therefore it would be a very bad place to stage tar files larger than 2 GB. If you know otherwise I would be very interested. I really _need_ a reliable and readily available solution for moving large files from Linux to Windows. Right now I always use split to break the files into 2 GB or smaller pieces and write them to FAT32. Then I have the choice of using specialized software that can work with the split images (I'm talking about Computer Forensic software and much of it does support split files.) Or I can re-assemble the pieces via Windows by writing to a NTFS partition. FYI: I am not saying anything about FAT32's max filesystem size. I don't know what it is, but with Linux I have formatted single partitions up to 400GB. The standard Windows OS tools refuse to create that large of a FAT32 partition. Third party tools like partition magic will also format large partitions as FAT32. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century