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@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@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@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? -- William Hooper
