Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Sat, 06 Dec 2003 01:04:03 +0100 |
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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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