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Re: FAT32 :--(



 Yes, but this is for the installfest. I'm not going to have to install a 
driver. All I plan to do is to install Virtualbox, and copy one of the VDI's 

On 08/19/2008 07:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote: 
> That's what I thought, but recently I copied several 3 GB files to a 
> FAT32 formatted USB disk from a Linux box and they copied without 
> error, and verified with md5sum. 
> 
> A 5 GB file however, did seem to die at around the 4 GB point. 
> 
> ext2 is also an option. I've used this ext2 driver with Windows and it 
> seems to work. 
> 
> http://www.fs-driver.org/
> 
> I'd tend to trust the open source driver ported to Windows before I'd 
> trust the reverse-engineered driver for NTFS on Linux. 


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