[ILUG] partition question

[Tomek]

Hi,

About FAT32 support in Windows 2000 (source: Microsoft):
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Maximum Sizes on FAT32 Volumes

The FAT32 volume must have at least 65,527 clusters. The maximum
number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 4,177,918. Windows 2000
creates volumes up to 32 GB, but you can use larger volumes created by
other operating systems such as Windows 98. Table 3.11 lists FAT32
size limits.

Table 3.11 FAT32 Size Limits
(...)
Maximum volume size 	32 GB
(This is due to the Windows 2000 format utility. The maximum volume
size that Windows 98 can create is 127.53 GB).
Files per volume 	Approximately 4 million
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But I think I never used bigger FAT32 than 32 GB.

About NTFS "free" writing support in Linux:

CaptiveNTFS needs Windows XP NTFS driver (so, it can be illegal in
your case - Windows 2000):
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
I used previous version but it needed also fuse-lufs bridge and wasnt
very stable then.
The current version seems to have fuse "native" interface.

There is also commercial driver (and that doesnt need XP drivers):
http://www.ntfs-linux.com/home/personal/

Best regards,

Tomek

On 3/3/06, moylan <moylan at dpsystems.ie> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm currently using win2000 and have been dabbling with some small linux
> distributions.  my system currently has an 80gb hd partitioned into 2
> 32gb partitions as windows 2000 doesn't seem to like making fat32
> partitions greater than 32gb.  i didn't use ntfs as linux doesn't easily
> handle those from what i can google.
>
> is there a partitioning format that will give me a large single
> partition that windows and linux can share?  even a separate boot
> partition for windows and linux and sharing the majority of the drive
> for data.
>
> thanks in advance,
> moylan
>
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