[ale] FAT32 driver and big disk drives

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 15:14:29 EST 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:58:12 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> 
> > Is FAT32 under SUSE 8.2 (2.4 kernel) reliable with a 250GB partition?
> >
> > Is it likely more reliable with SUSE 9.2 (2.6 kernel), or something in between?
> >
> > M$ claims FAT32 supports upto 8 TB under WinXP.
> >
> > === Background
> >
> > I have a large tar backup tape (~200GB) made from an ext2 filesystem.
> > There are roughly 300 files, all 640MB each.  (Sized to fit on a CD).
> >
> > I am trying to restore the tar backup to a newly formatted 250GB FAT32
> > partition.
> >
> > Looking at the tar output (saved to a log file), everything is working
> > fine and my file sizes are correct.
> >
> > Doing a "ls" on the filesystem shows that a number of the files are 0
> > bytes long.
> >
> > Unfortunately, all 300 or so files comprise a single logical entity
> > that I need to access from a Windows box.
> >
> > Linux cannot write to NTFS and none of Windows EXT2 drivers seem
> > reliable enough to use for this.
> >
> > I guess my next attempt will be to get cygwin to read in the tape.
> 
> Samba?
> 
Good thought.  It should work and nothing else is..  

Thanks



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