Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[James Wilkinson]

Craig White wrote (about a 40 GB vfat partition on my computer):
> thanks - good to know. I know that I couldn't get it done with mkfs -t
> vfat /dev/hdbx where x represented partition > 32 Gb

The various variants of FAT are odd. That should not be news to
*anyone*, considering when they were defined and who by.

Using mkdosfs, you need to specify -F32 for FAT32 support and set -s
appropriately. (You may need fairly large clusters, depending on quite
how big the disk is).

As I said, I've had this partition for a while, so I can't remember what
I used to create it.

> Of course, the next obvious question is why?  Never seemed to me to be a
> reasonable thing - having a vfat partition > 32 Gb UNLESS it was on a
> Windows 98 computer.

Well, it allows me to share files between Windows 2000 and Linux, with
both of them being able to write to it. And yes, Win98 support was a
consideration.

James.

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