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SubjectRe: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> 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.

OK, my mistake, but there is a 32 as in file size, right?

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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