Claude Jones a écrit : > On Saturday 28 January 2006 6:05 pm, John Summerfied wrote: > >>Tim wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:03 +0100, François Patte wrote: >>> >>>>I have a USB hard drive and 3 questions: >>>> >>>>1- I suppose that this hd is dos-formatted by default. Is it because >>>>this that I had a problem of file size limitation? I couldn't create a >>>>file more than 4.2Gb. >>> >>>I don't know the filesize limit for DOS, but I thought it was less than >> >>WinXP Home stopped at 2 Gb for fat32. > > > At the risk of sticking my foot in my mouth, something is not computing in > this discussion - I've probably missed a salient point, but, in case I > haven't --- I currently have a 160GB external USB drive connected to this > computer. It is formatted as FAT32. I just double checked. I also just copied > a big media file over to it and played it back with Kaffeine, and that worked > fine. > > FAT32 size limitation is in the terrabytes with some caveats... > This is form the MS site: > > In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 > volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you > must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP > Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other > operating systems. You maybe make some confusion here: the topic was the max size of a file under a filesystem, not the max size of a partition you can format according to a filesystem. Anyway, I'm not an expert at all (if not why should I ask questions!): I was stuck building a file on a Fat32 filesystem, using "cat file1 file2.... fileN > file" After sometimes I found the ubuntu doc (in French) which clearly explain different filesystems and their limitations... http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/installation/systeme_de_fichiers Regards. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université René Descartes http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
