[Tfug] Defrag a disk

[Earl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

Earl


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-- "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh no, you can run Fat32 to...I forget exactly, but somewhere between
50 and 60gigs it loses it's mind :).  At 32gig it's fine.

You're thinking of Fat16 - the native partition for Win95 I think it
was.  Fat32 was the "extended partition type" that arrived with Win98.

I think, anyhow.

Whatever.  :)  I can tell you for sure, 32gig Fat32 works fine.  I
keep such around because I'm doing a bit of tech support as a private
sideline and deal with all sorts of critters.

Jim

On 9/10/07, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well few people need to shoot files bigger than 32gig around, and
> > Fat32 works acceptably well to that point.
>
> I thought the maximum file size on a FAT32 volume was 4 GB. I was
> going to use a shared FAT32 partition between XP and Ubuntu, but I
> didn't because of the size limitation (I occasionally generate 4.7 GB
> files while making... home movies... yes...).
>
> I installed another 250 GB drive instead, and now I'm in business.
> Ext2 IFS for Windows (for reading/writing Ext2/Ext3 volumes) is pretty
> cool, too, but separate drives are the best solution IMO.
>
> Matt
>
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