[GLLUG] Formatting in Linux
Michael Harrington
HarringM at michigan.gov
Fri Oct 22 08:38:54 EDT 2004
Thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, I need the HUGE partitions fpr
the work I do-never know how large image files will be.
>>> Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> 10/21/2004 1:46:34 PM >>>
On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:45, after a long battle with technology,
Michael Harrington wrote:
> I was wondering how [to] format large fat32 partitions(like 160 gb)
in
> linux. I get an error when trying the command
>
> mkdosfs -I F32 /dev/hdx
"mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hdxy" , shirley? You usually want to partition IDE,
SCSI, USB, and Firewire disks. Anyway, there's a size limit of 64G for
FAT32 because something (number of sectors? number of blocks?) is
stored in a signed 32-bit int in the filesystem itself. ISTR a patch
for the Linux kernel that allowed it to use an unsigned int for this
value and so use 128G FAT32 filesystems. They may have changed the
32-bit thing in the latest versions of 'Doze, but I don't know whether
the mkdosfs maintainer has taken this change into account.
So: Partition the disk into multiple 64G partitions, or use a 64-bit
filesystem (ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, NTFS, ufs, or something.)
You'll have to make this decision based on the systems you need to use
this disk on. If it's a Linux-only system, use ext3/Reiser and
fuggeddaboudit. If it's dual-boot, multiple 64G partitions are your
best bet. If this is an external USB/Firewire disk, multiple
partitions are also your best bet.
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