200 gb hdd partitions

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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fat32 does have a limit, but it is definitely not 32 GB. I know this because 
I have an external hard drive which I at one time had formatted with fat32, 
and the capasity of that drive was 80 GB. However, as fat32 partitions are 
made larger, the performance of the filesystem degrades rapidly after about 
40 GB. This is true whether or not you are using this much space. Simply 
having it that large will cause the problem to serfice. I am with Roy on the 
recommendation to use a different FS if you can.
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From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee at visuallink.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: 200 gb hdd partitions


> hi,
> if I remember corectly using fat32 you can't make a partition larger than 
> 32
> GB so you would need about 5 partitions do do that. I would use ntfs for
> windows or what ever file system linux uses by default.  I don't know the
> name of the one linux uses.  I am mostly a windows person at the moment.
> Roy
>
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> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> To: "Speakup Mailing-list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:19 PM
> Subject: 200 gb hdd partitions
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> Speaking of partitions.  I have a 200 gb hdd which I'd like to format as
> fat32 so that I can read/write to and from Linux
> and Windows.  Is it safe to partition such a large size as one partition 
> or
> should I break it down to smaller ones like
> perhaps 2 or 3 partitions for the whole drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
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