Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread Martin Read
On 08/09/15 14:09, Darac Marjal wrote: Just as a point of interest, I understand that most BIOS limits are limits in the ATA command set (that is, PATA and SATA drives experience these issues). Looking at http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/2tib-disc-limit.html I see tha

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 07:43:12PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2015 9:47 AM, "Ken Heard" <[1]kensli...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Is there any limit to the size of a USB flash drive with the ext2 file > > system encrypted on it which can be addressed through the BIOS > > inte

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 8, 2015 6:51 AM, "Pascal Hambourg" wrote: > > shawn wilson a écrit : > > > > (which uefi uses for boot). > > So what ? Who needs an EFI system partition bigger than the recommended > 512 MB ? > Maybe he was trying to use a bigger partition? Do you have a better idea what's happening? Was

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
shawn wilson a écrit : > > IIRC, 32 GB is the limit of vfat 32 GiB is the maximum size of a FAT16 filesytem with 32-KiB clusters, or of a FAT32 partition created by Windows XP and later. The limit of a FAT32 filesystem is at least 2 TiB. > (which uefi uses for boot). So what ? Who needs an EFI

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

2015-09-07 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 7, 2015 9:47 AM, "Ken Heard" wrote: > > > Is there any limit to the size of a USB flash drive with the ext2 file > system encrypted on it which can be addressed through the BIOS > interface? (I am using Debian Jessie.) The largest size I am now > using is 32 gb drives but would like to us