Re: creating a FAT file system

[Cameron Hutchison <camh+dl@xdna.net>]

Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
> 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?

Tell mkfs.vfat to create a FAT32 filesystem:

# mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hdc1

I did this the other day on a 20GB partition with no problems.