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SubjectRe: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug
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mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
>
>>> No problem. I put this patch together quite a while ago for
>>> my own use and never got around to sending it in. It removes
>>> a number of artificial fat32 limits, and allows files up to 4GB,
>>
>> Why only 4gb?
>
> That's what the 32 in fat32 means.

No, it doesn't. It's about the number of bits in a cluster number, thus
the size of the filesystem. And that 32 is actually 28.

Andreas.

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