Re: creating a FAT file system

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:53:43PM +0100, 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?

I think this must be a limitation of mkdosfs, I'm sure vfat is good
for > 8 GB.

Try booting off a win98 boot floppy that has FORMAT.EXE on it?

Pigeon