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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. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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