Re: FAT32 :--(

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 If you want to convert the fat32 partition to ntfs from within Windows 
2000 or better, from a  command prompt, type: convert c: /fs:ntfs 
(assuming C is the partition to convert). 

Windows will then have you reboot as it first needs to schedule the 
conversion, which happens at the next reboot. 

Scott 

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: 

> 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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