2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[Kevin Krieser]

I have had XP prevent me from creating a FAT32 partition larger than 32 gig.
But since it was an external hard drive, I was able to format it under
Windows 98 and use it later under XP.  (though it has since been changed to
NTFS).

I don't know what would happen if I were to do a fresh install of XP to a
hard drive, and tried to format it as FAT32.  I suspect that, if the C:
drive was already formatted FAT32, XP would allow you to install to it.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Mike Peterson
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:02 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2 Gb File Size Limit ?


I have greater that 32 GB Fat 32 partitions on Windows XP.
There is no prevention mentioned when I did the install from scratch.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matheesha" <m.weerasinghe at ntlworld.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: 2 Gb File Size Limit ?


> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:49, Shashi Bhusan Patra wrote:
> > Kevin Krieser wrote:
> >
> > >Actually, FAT32 has a 4GB limitation, at least under Windows OS's.
> > >
> > well, i have a  FAT32 partition of 12 GB size.
> >
> >
>
>
> Please don't confuse file size limits and partition size limits of
> FAT32. As per this article
> http://www.win2000mag.net/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=38803 it clearly
> explains that FAT32 supports a max file size of approximately 4GB. FAT32
> partition size limit is 2TB. The reason Windows 2000 and above *prevent*
> you from creating FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB is because larger
> partition sizes use larger cluster sizes thereby wasting space
> (depending on the sizes of the files stored on the partition). NTFS is a
> more efficient file system in this scenario and hence Microsoft
> encourage usage of NTFS.
>
> Unfortunately this answer doesn't explain why the user was unable to
> copy files larger than 2GB in the Linux environment.
>
> M@
>
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