On Sunday 19 February 2006 18:50, Eben King wrote:
<snip>
> 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.
faith:/usr/src# which mkfs.vfat
/sbin/mkfs.vfat
faith:/usr/src# dpkg -S /sbin/mkfs.vfat
dosfstools: /sbin/mkfs.vfat
I use it all the time on floppies. Works for me.
--Jason Boxman http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff
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