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I'm compiling the kernel 2.4.27 for Red Hat Linux 9, and I was wondering if anyone knew which option under "xconfig" enables support for large vfat partitions.

Hello

Did you look under "file systems"?

This tread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=235927 mention large vfat as a reason for compiling a kernel. You might contact the user.

Have a lot of fun

Koen Plessers

Try using menuconfig. xconfig was terrible the last time I tried it. And yes, it has an option under File Systems for vfat. Don't be fooled by MS-DOS filesystem options. It HAS to be vfat.

In xconfig it's under filesystems -> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems and you check the msdos/vfat support - and ntfs read support if you want it.

I mean LARGE vfat partitions, in terms of larger than 128GB. Thanks anyway though. Some versions support it and some don't.

You have to be specific :) Once upon a time fat32 was concidered 'large' compared to fat16 :)

This would be dependent on the kernel, not sure what the latest support. Might have to ask the guys that do the vfat code.

I would not think it wise to have a fat32 filesystem that large.

The fat filesystem should really have stayed on the floppy drive :)

Just looking around, it seems windows has a lot of trouble with fat32 larger than 128GB... I assume XP does it and that's why you want linux to do it?

Have you tried linux to see what it thinks on the large fat32/vfat partition?

Yeah, I eventually want to convert the partition to ext3 or something, but I need to be able to read it in order to do that! ;)

Huh? I don't follow. "Tried linux"?
I have done some snooping around now, and there seem to be a lot of problems, with this, yes. A lot of people with questions, not so many with answers. They included support for partitions of larger than 128GB in the kernel 2.4.25pre5-pre6 or something like that.

I would try asking on the actual kernel or filesystem list.

And I was just wondering if you actually had linux running and tried to access a large fat partition and had trouble, or whether you were just thinking about it.

Oh. Well, this isn't a hypothetical, I'm trying to get my slave drive to mount and it is not being very good about it. I've been trying to work it out on this other thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=237364
There are a bunch of specifics there, for anyone who could lend a hand. Thanks.