also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2003.03.12.2253 +0100]: > i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my > cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win > FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: > > piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1 > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system > > i can't create NTFS filesystems, right? so how the flyingfood do > i make a filesystem of that size for braindeadOS? mkfs.vfat -F 32 <device> it's been a rough day. i *did* read the manpage. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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