Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 5 23:04:25 UTC 2003
Curt Eckhart said:
> I don't know why this should work. The 2Gb limit on FAT32 has to do
> with the maximum addressable unit that DOS can handle. While things may
> appear ok, I have a feeling that once data needs to be stored past the
> 2Gb mark on the partition that bad things will happen under windows.
Nope. There is a limit on the size of a FAT partition of 2GB. FAT32 wasa
created as a replacement partly for that reason.
[whooper at butters whooper]$ sudo /sbin/parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 9452.307 primary fat32 boot, lba
2 9452.307 9554.282 primary ext3
3 9554.282 18567.312 primary ext3
4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba
5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
[whooper at butters whooper]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 8.7G 3.1G 5.2G 38% /
/dev/hda2 99M 8.2M 86M 9% /boot
none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 9.3G 5.5G 3.9G 59% /mnt/win_c
[whooper at butters whooper]$
Now there is a limitation for a single file under some OSes of 2GB on
FAT32 partitions. Maybe that is what is confusing you?
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William Hooper
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