-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-01-19 at 23:42 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
the newly formatted drive again. But the question I have about that is, isn't there a size limit to a drive formatted in FAT32? I am looking at 160 gigs or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32
FAT32
In order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while still allowing DOS real mode code to handle the format without unnecessarily reducing the available conventional memory, Microsoft implemented a newer generation of FAT, known as FAT32, with cluster values held in a 32-bit field, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number, for a maximum of approximately 268 million (228) clusters. This allows for drive sizes of up to 8 tebibytes with 32KB clusters, but the boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting volume size to 2 TiB on a hard disk with 512 byte sectors.
I think your covered...
What about filesize? FAT usually limits to two GiB... Ah, the wikipedia says "4 GiB minus 1 byte (2³²−1 bytes)". That's not enough, a DVD iso image is larger. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl1oIsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VPigCdG5RoRVpONVevAu9No+HlDJDJ laEAniEjrskAHdZgAtdZ79bcLqhkdZyG =P9g0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----