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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:43:59 -0500
From: Rahul Karnik <deathdruid@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system.
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       Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>,
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:53 -0500 (EST), linux-os
<linux-os@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
> I thought maybe that was so, so I tried to format it as a
> FAT-32 drive and W$ complained that it was too large. So
> I thought, I would just partition it, but I never partitioned
> it to two logical drives before before so I don't know
> what's changed (it's W/2000). Right now, I am partitioning
> it to two slices and formatting it with FAT-32.

Note that mkfs.vfat will format up to the maximum size allowed by the
FAT32 spec, rather than the 32 GB limit imposed by Windows. I am using
a 120 GB VFAT partition to share data between Windows and Linux.

Thanks,
Rahul
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