Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Large-FAT32-Filesystem Bug | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Sat, 06 Dec 2003 02:10:23 +0100 |
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mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:
> 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?
Yes, the size has always been a 32 bit field, even with fat12.
Andreas.
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