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Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this must be a limitation of mkdosfs, I'm sure vfat is good
> for > 8 GB.
I believe msdosfs is 12-bit or 16-bit FAT; vfat is (or can be) 32-bit FAT.
Kevin
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:53:43PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my
> cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win
> FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it:
>
> piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1
looks like you are trying to create a FAT, and not FAT32 filesystem. the
maximum size for a FAT partition is 2G (2048).
have you tryed to create a partition >2G? have you run fdisk first to
create the partition?
/ernst
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:53, martin f krafft wrote:
> i have 13Gb of data a
Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
> i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my
> cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win
> FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it:
>
> piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1
> mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 F
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.12.2253 +0100]:
> i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my
> cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win
> FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it:
>
> piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /
i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my
cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win
FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it:
piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1
mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too larg
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