Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-27 21:47, R. Clayton wrote:
>   So, I don't know exactly *how* you'd format a device as "fat32".
>
> I used "mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1"

Ah.  I just do mkfs.vfat.

According to "man mkfs.vfat":
       -F FAT-size
              Specifies the type of  file  allocation  tables
              used  (12, 16 or 32 bit).  If nothing is speci‐
              fied, mkdosfs will automatically select between
              12, 16 and 32 bit, whatever fits better for the
              file system size.

I figure that every HDD from the past 15 years is big enough for 
mkfs.vfat to choode 32.

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