ext2fs: ext2 vs. ext3

[Bruce Cran]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:19:17 +0100
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:

> According to Oliver Fromme:
> > because FAT has a 4 GB limit and NTFS is unsupported on
> > FreeBSD for practical purposes.
> 
> FAT32 ought to be able to get over that 4 GB limit, does it?

FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GB and can support large volumes but I
think Windows (XP at least) refuses to format volumes over 32 GB.

The Microsoft KB article about FAT32 limits:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463
How to format a drive > 32 GB:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-large-hard-drive-fat-fat32/

-- 
Bruce Cran