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The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 10:01 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote:
>
> AFAIK FAT32 has an upper limit of 127GB. which means you need lots of
> partitions.
What?
Acording to the wikipedia, the limit is 8 Tera bibytes (8 TiB) - although
if you format it from windows the limit is lower:
| In theory, this should support a total of approximately 268,435,456
| (2^28) clusters, allowing for drive sizes in the range of 8 tebibytes
| with 32K clusters. On Windows 95/98, due to the version of Microsoft's
| ScanDisk utility included with these operating systems being a 16-bit
| application, the FAT structure is not allowed to grow beyond 4,177,920
| (< 2^22) clusters, placing the volume limit at 127.53 gigabytes.[4]. A
| limitation in original versions of Windows 98/98SE's Fdisk causes it to
| incorrectly report disk sizes over 64GB.[5] A corrected version is
| available from Microsoft. These limitations do not apply to Windows
| 2000/XP except during Setup, in which there is a 32GB limit.[6] Windows
| ME supports the FAT32 file system without any limits.[7]
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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