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Re: 4GB limit on FAT32


Not with FAT32 it is not a large file supported filesystem
it is a 32 bit filesystem.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:11:29PM +0200, Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just playing with two partitions (m: NTFS, x: FAT32) to check
> whether the 4GB limit is still there:
> 
> Admin@t636 ~
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/m/size.test bs=100M count=47
> 47+0 Datens"atze ein
> 47+0 Datens"atze aus
> 4928307200 bytes (4.9 GB) copied, 290.58 seconds, 17.0 MB/s
> 
> Admin@t636 ~
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/x/size.test bs=100M count=47
> dd: Schreiben von "/x/size.test": No space left on device
> 41+0 Datens"atze ein
> 40+0 Datens"atze aus
> 4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB) copied, 251.469 seconds, 16.7 MB/s
> 
> Admin@t636 ~
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 t636 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) 2005-05-25 19:38 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
> 
> Obviously it is. Is this the expected behaviour? I thought using SP2 on
> XP eliminates this restriction. Can anybody explain this?
> 
> 
> Oliver.
> 
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