On 10/22/05, Michael W Cocke
1) I don't know exactly what the FAT32 max file size is, but it's not 2 or 4 Gb, as I have files larger than 4Gb on a FAT32 volume.
Interesting, the docs referenced all said 4 GiB.
2) If you mentioned what version of SuSE you're using I missed it, but there are a few ways to write directly to an NTFS volume from linux - For SuSE 10 (which has fuse capability without kernel hacking), the ntfsprogs (not included w/ SuSE - google for ntfsprogs-fuse) work for me so far. For most previous versions of SuSE I used captive-ntfs, which works (when it works at all) very well - but the author has orphaned it. If it works with your kernel, you're good to go, but if it doesn't, it won't.
I also tried the commercial product "write anywhere" - it's complete crap.
Thanks for the info. I knew SUSE 10 had FUSE. It is on my list of things to test with NTFS writes. What I do is normally straight forward. ie. Just create a bunch of big files and save their MD5SUM to ensure integrity. I actually use a variety of Linux systems in my job, so my generic solution will continue to be split files on FAT32, but I have 3 or 4 machines that I fully control the OS, so those will be whatever they need to be. ie. This is their primary job. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century