Re: need help on vfat partition

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 16/12/2017 à 11:45, Eike Lantzsch a écrit :
> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:10:08 AM -03 Long Wind wrote:
> > maybe the reason is the partition is too big
> for FAT16 or vfat yes. You need to format it as FAT32 or NTFS.
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> > PS: the choice of vfat is that IMO vfat is more cross-platform
> not really. VFAT allows long filenames - otherwise it is not better than FAT16.
> That means it allows only partitions up to 2GB.

FWIW, vfat is not a filesystem layout type, so it has no size limitation 
per se. It is only a way to use long filenames with any FAT type, FAT12, 
FAT16 or FAT32. So vfat on FAT32 has the limits of FAT32.