Format USB HD

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:06:09PM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
> Since my last post I did a bit more experimenting and also a little bit of 
> reading. As it stands now I succeeded in splitting my 120G USB Drive into 
> two partitions. One with 90G that I formatted with NTFS, and a second one 
> with 30G that I formatted as FAT32.
> It appears that Windows cannot accept any FAT32 with more than 32G
> This worked out quite well, and so I did not follow your instruction with 
> the "-F 32" option. But I wonder if it would have overcome the 32G 
> limitation. It is too late for me to try this, because now that I have a 
> working system I am loath to start over again just to prove a point.
> Thanks for your help,

Actually windows CAN use FAT32 larger than 30GB.  It just won't create
one.  Just thank Microsoft for knowing better than you what you want.

You can make a large FAT32 filesystem using linux and windows will
happily use it.

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Len Sorensen
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