Problem mounting FAT32 hard drive

[William Hooper]

Curt Eckhart  said:
> I don't know why this should work.  The 2Gb limit on FAT32 has to do
> with the maximum addressable unit that DOS can handle.  While things may
> appear ok, I have a feeling that once data needs to be stored past the
> 2Gb mark on the partition that bad things will happen under windows.

Nope.  There is a limit on the size of a FAT partition of 2GB.  FAT32 wasa
created as a replacement partly for that reason.

[whooper at butters whooper]$ sudo /sbin/parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   9452.307  primary   fat32       boot, lba
2       9452.307   9554.282  primary   ext3
3       9554.282  18567.312  primary   ext3
4      18567.312  19077.187  extended              lba
5      18567.343  19077.187  logical   linux-swap
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

[whooper at butters whooper]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             8.7G  3.1G  5.2G  38% /
/dev/hda2              99M  8.2M   86M   9% /boot
none                  125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             9.3G  5.5G  3.9G  59% /mnt/win_c
[whooper at butters whooper]$

Now there is a limitation for a single file under some OSes of 2GB on
FAT32 partitions.  Maybe that is what is confusing you?

-- 
William Hooper