[mdlug] What *not* to do with k9copy

[Michael Corral]

Michael Rudas a ecrit:
>Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> Bad idea. It's FAT32, of course, so both OS's can write to it. But that
>> filesystem has a 2GB filesize limit.
>
> No, by actual experience, it's a 4 GB filesize limit for FAT32.  I, too,
> thought it was a 2GB limit until I actually tested it.

Yeah, it's FAT16 which has the 2GB file size limit, not FAT32.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

On a related note, someone I know bought an external USB 250GB hard
drive recently, and it was formatted with FAT32 by default. Ugh.
The funny thing is that when trying to copy a file slightly bigger
than 4GB to it, Windows complained that the disk was out of space,
even though it was empty! Gotta love those Windows error messages.
Of course, formatting it with NTFS fixed the problem.

Michael