[Leaplist] got myself a lil usb drive

[Bryan J Smith]

NT5+ (earlier doesn't support FAT32) is purposefully retarded
from creating FAT32 filesystems greater than certain sizes,
typically 32GiB.  This is because FAT32 requires some hidden
sectors under some geometry translations.  There can also
be hard 128GB or reduced sizes due to one small CHS geometry
value, at least in what NT5+ wants to support.

The way around this is to utilize NT CLI utilities, or just use Linux
"mkdosfs -F".  However, if you do the latter and you cannot
assign it a disk letter under NT's Disk Administrator, then there
are geometry issues it can't deal with.
.


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-----Original Message-----
From: "Richard F. Ostrow Jr." <rich at warfaresdl.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:41:47 
To: This is the Leap Main List<leaplist at leap-cf.org>
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] got myself a lil usb drive

I will say that if you ever intend to use that drive across multiple OS's,
you'll find it to be a difficult task to put FAT32 _back_ onto it. Windows
no longer _allows_ you to format a drive on FAT32 (with either XP-64 Pro
or Vista Ultimate, at least). Eventually, I was able to find some linux
utilities that could actually format the thing under FAT32 (which I needed
to backup my PS3 hard drive - it _only_ understood FAT32). If this is not
a concern for you, I see no reason not to convert it to ext4.
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:34 pm, Tom Foster wrote:
> Inspired by some recent posts, I got a seagate 320g freeagent
> external drive.  One of the little ones.  I got this instead of the
> western digital whatever that was right next to it.  same capacity,
> same form factor, same price.  I have two questions.
>
> Did I choose the right drive?  should I have gone with the western
> digital?
>
> Also, I'm going to get rid of whatever backup software comes on
> the thing, but was wondering if I should keep the (I'm assuming) vfat
> filesystem on it or put ext3 or 4 on it instead while I'm at it.
>
> It's not out of the box yet--it's still very easily returned or
> exchanged.  whatduyu think?
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> -tom
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