Craig White wrote (about a 40 GB vfat partition on my computer): > 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 The various variants of FAT are odd. That should not be news to *anyone*, considering when they were defined and who by. Using mkdosfs, you need to specify -F32 for FAT32 support and set -s appropriately. (You may need fairly large clusters, depending on quite how big the disk is). As I said, I've had this partition for a while, so I can't remember what I used to create it. > 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. Well, it allows me to share files between Windows 2000 and Linux, with both of them being able to write to it. And yes, Win98 support was a consideration. James. -- James Wilkinson | actor: (n) a piece of scenery that has the audacity Exeter Devon UK | to move once lit. E-mail address: james | @westexe.demon.co.uk |
