partition size limits
 

I have an external harddisk of 160GB used for backup, that came with one ntfs partition.

I would like to create two partitions (80+80), but i am concerned with the partition size limits. I want to use fat32, to share files between windows and linux, but i have the 32GB limit.

It is possible to create only two partitions in linux? How can i do it?

Thanks

I thought you had more space with fat32. If it really can only do 32GB than you are out of options for fat32.
Google fat32.

Re: partition size limits
 

That 32 GB is indeed correct.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp

n theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other operating systems.

I don't understand the question ... if you use ext2, ext3,reiserfs you
can easily do that, but you wouldn't be able to (not trivially, anyway)
to use the external drive from winDOHs.


Cheers,
Tink

if i use ext2, ext3 ou reiserfs, i can't use it in windows, or at least i am gone need to do some home work to achive that. So i must use FAT32.
The question basicly was if i can format it under linux to get more than 32GB, and if windows will recognize all the partition and files.
thanks

Hmmm ... good question. M$ site kind fo suggests that 32GB
is a limit, but maybe winXP just can't create it. I've done a
little googling and came across this post which kind of
suggests that it's possible to USE a larger FAT32 partition
from windows.



Cheers,
Tink

I read somewhere that you can make bigger partition than 32GB, f you do it in linux, using knoppix or whatever you have.
Give it a go.

Hey, I think i've done it. I have a 40 GB hard drive that was lying around and i made it an external usb drive with FAT 32. I was only able to create max 32 GB partition from windows on the disc but from linux I was able to make the whole disc FAT 32.

So, yes you can do it...

Tux,

Edit: Yes, windows reads and writes fine...no problem.

wow.. I just helped someone with this.
use mkdosfs it should be on most linux systems and there's a port for windows here