John Garvey
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Re: max partition size of a fs-dos.so controlled FAT32 partition
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John Garvey
04/25/2009 12:32 PM
post28089
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Re: max partition size of a fs-dos.so controlled FAT32 partition
> What is the partition limit of the fs-dos.so file system driver?
From the Users Guide (Understanding System Limits):
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DOS FAT12/16/32 filesystem
Filesystem size
Depends on the FAT format:
* for FAT12, it's 4084 clusters (largest cluster is 32 KB, hence 128 MB)
* for FAT16, it's 65524 clusters (thus 2 GB)
* for FAT32, you get access to 268435444 clusters (which is 8 TB)
Disk size
Limited by the disk driver and io-blk.
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The 2G/8T assumes a cluster size of 32k, as Microsoft suggests avoiding 64k for maximum compatability (although I think
fs-dos is sign-safe); FAT32 defaults to 4k. The disk subsystem uses 32-bit blknos, so you'd hit that 2TB limit first on
a HDD with 32k clusters; with more usual 4k clusters you'd hit the FAT32 fsys limit first. Select appropriate minimum
(although either way it is a fairly large number; this is theorectical, I've never had a HD larger than 250G).
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