Re: [Sheflug] Writable XP Partitions

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:43, Marcus Hanwell wrote:
> I think the 4GB problem is related to a limitation of FAT32 - although I
> thought the Win98 on could format FatX or whatever it was up to about
> 20GB. I can't remember the exact numbers right now though.

FAT32 goes bigger than 4Gb, you might be thinking of FAT12 (I though
FAT16 went bigger than that too...)

> You can write to NTFS partitions from Linux, but it is extremely
> experimental 

Yup. Might be worth looking at going the other way:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2workaround

Cheers,

Alex.

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