[geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris 10

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Mon Nov 6 13:12:30 CST 2006


Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Of course, this begs the question of how the beast handles >2GB 
>> files.  Have you tested that Lionel?
> 
> I agree it is probably FAT.

Yes, it's FAT.

But remember, there are at least 3 versions of FAT: FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32.

FAT12 -> floppies
FAT16 -> hard drives, max partition size ~ 2GB
FAT32 -> hard drives, max partition size ~ 127GB

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com



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