On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, michael hast wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
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>> Now I've got everything I can get, and it's time to put it back. NTFS
>> writing is unreliable and new, so I chose FAT (vfat). Had to make 3
>> primary + virtual partitions, as XP's formatter won't make a 128 GiB FAT
>> partition (W98's will, but I can't get the drive to show up in W98).
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> <snip>
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> Why don't you write a big partition with an open-source partitioner? Will
> the partitioner on the Debian installer or QTParted not do that?
I can make a big partition, no problem. But FAT32 doesn't go >128 GiB.
(There's only 70-something GiB of data anyway counting wasted allocation
space, so I could split the disk half FAT and half NTFS.) Two filesystems
are better than 5, so yeah, that'd be an improvement.
Plus, what can I use to lay down a FAT filesystem? TTBOMK there's no
mkfs.vfat or similar.
Anyhow, why should I think that FAT written thusly will be accessed faster
than what I have?
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