On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > going back to what I said in reply to the first post - I have never been > > able to format a vfat partition larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. By > > extrapolation, I might figure that I would have a problem mounting a > > vfat partition that is larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. > > > > Since it was Windows 98 and Windows 98 doesn't support NTFS, it has to > > be vfat (Fat32). It is larger than 32 Gigabytes. This would seem to be > > your issue. > > > > Unless someone else knows how to mount a vfat volume greater than 32 > > Gigabytes on Linux, > > I've got such a beast: > > [james@kendrick ~]$ df -m /media/data/ > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda11 42427 35687 6741 85% /media/data > [james@kendrick ~]$ mount | grep /media/data > /dev/hda11 on /media/data type vfat (rw,gid=501,dmask=2,fmask=113) > > The gid, dmask, and fmask options are so that members of a selected > group can write to the drive. > > I suspect I created it with mkdosfs (it's been a while). > > It mounts normally: > [james@kendrick ~]$ grep /media/data /etc/fstab > /dev/hda11 /media/data vfat defaults,gid=501,dmask=2,fmask=113 0 0 > > Linux, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 have handled it without problem or > complaint. ---- thanks - good to know. I know that I couldn't get it done with mkfs -t vfat /dev/hdbx where x represented partition > 32 Gb I gave up. Of course, the next obvious question is why? Never seemed to me to be a reasonable thing - having a vfat partition > 32 Gb UNLESS it was on a Windows 98 computer. ;-) Craig
