partition management in linux

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 14:44:24 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> oleksandr korneta wrote:
>   
>> this is 200GB drive.
>> vfat partition size is 32Gb (the maximum windows is capable to work with).
>> ext3 is the rest. And the latter one is ~80% full.
>>
>>
>>     
> Just a minor correction - 32Gb is an artificial limit that XP has
> when creating FAT32 partitions. I have used Windows 98 with a 60Gb
> FAT32 partition with no problems. I have a 40Gb FAT32 partition on
> this machine for the few times I need to boot Windows.
>
> Mikkel
>   
I've used windows with a 120GB and 220GB vfat partition. Changed the 
larger to an ext2 because FAT32 sucks. :)
-Dan




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