Re: Suggestion for backing up data

Alan Adams wrote:

Are you sure about that? I've got a 120GB FAT32 disk here, mounted on
Linux, and accessible to Windows.

FAT16 has a 2GB limit, I'd expect FAT32 to be 2^16 larger.

There might be an 8GB file size limit.

Check out
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/38803/38803.html for a
summary of limits.

FAT32 has a 8GB partition limit if you want the smallest (4K) cluster
size to minimize waste of space.

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