Re: NTFS For Mac OSX

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:09:27 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2008-01-26 00:48:49 +0000, dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) said:

You might be getting this detail mixed up with the arbitrary limit
imposed by Windows XP and Vista when formatting a volume: it won't let
you create a FAT32 volume larger than a certain size (32 GB, as far as I
know), but it will let you access a FAT32 volume larger than that which
was created elsewhere. Windows 2000 didn't have this limit, and neither
does Mac OS X.

That's what I was thinking of, yes. Apparently you can break that limit
from the command-line tools, but I suspect the limit they put in was
pretty sensible.

In that it pushes people off that derelict shithole of a filesystem
and onto NTFS, which is pretty decent.

Cheers - Jaimie
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