Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore Issues with larger files
2008-05-19 15:55:59
Chris Baker wrote:
>> You are restoring to Linux, Windows, MacOSX? 2G is, for example the size
> limit for > FAT32, no way you can restore a bigger file to a, say WinXP with
> FAT32.
>
>> Eduardo.
>
> I think you mean that 2 GB is the limit for FAT16. Windows 95a was the last
> FAT16 operating system released by Microsoft.
No, he means that 2GB is the _file_ size limit for FAT32 for any single
file.
> The limit for FAT32 is 8 TB.
That's the volume size limit with the maximum cluster size.
> This was released with Windows 95b in 1996. How
> many of us in 1996 figured that we would have terabyte drives in 2008?
Apparently no one at all, since scandisk will only check volumes of 128
gb or less.
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