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Re: FAT32 :--(



 Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> In preparing for the installfest, I want to put a couple of VDI's on a 
> 20GB HD formatted with FAT32. So, I formatted it with FAT32 (both on 
> Windows and on Linux). When I copied the Fedora 9 VDI, it told me the 
> file was to big yet the file is only 6GB. What I am doing is copying a 
> couple of prebuilt VDIs for the installfest. Curently I am formatting 
> the disk as NTFS. Since this is going to be used to import the VDIs into 
> Virtualbox on Windows, it needs to be formatted at a Windows FS. 

Yep... FAT32 has a 2GB file size limit, so if you want a Windows file 
system that supports bigger files you have to use NTFS. Fortunately the 
Linux NTFS support has gotten a lot better. 


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