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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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