Re: creating a FAT file system
looks like you are trying to create a FAT, and not FAT32 filesystem. the
maximum size for a FAT partition is 2G (2048).
have you tryed to create a partition >2G? have you run fdisk first to
create the partition?
/ernst
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:53, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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?
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Mvh
Ernst-Magne Vindal
ernst@vindal.com
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