[ale] [OT] External USB drives

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:28 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:

> Windows has an arbitrary 32GiB limit for the size of a volume it will 
> format as FAT32. However, the 4GiB (minus one byte) maximum
> limitation 
> on file size is inherent in the filesystem design. 


I think that the reasoning on that was that nobody really wants an FAT
formatted drive that large.  I don't agree with the imposed limitation,
though; FAT32 can be as large as 8 TiB (shudder).

    ? Mike

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