[WMCoolmon]

Does anyone know the maximum size for a fully-functional FAT32 drive? I had a link sometime that said, but seem to have lost it...

Basically, I'd be using this drive under Linux/Windows, and can create it with a tool from either. Ditto for maintenance.

[Bobboau]

technicaly, it's suposed to be somewere arounndt 2 GB, but I think it can be any size in practice.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Does anyone know the maximum size for a fully-functional FAT32 drive? I had a link sometime that said, but seem to have lost it...

Basically, I'd be using this drive under Linux/Windows, and can create it with a tool from either. Ditto for maintenance.

Depends on what you use. This  page has quite a few limits on it although it is a bit old.

[CP5670]

It's about 2TB. The Windows utility won't be able to format anything over 32GB, but a third party one should work. If you have a retail drive then those usually come with a format utilities that work well.

[WMCoolmon]

Thanks. I thought there was something regarding data corruption on volumes larger than a certain size though...is there a reliable source that debunks that?

[Grey Wolf]

I had problems at about 100GB during my WXP/Ubuntu experiment. Write errors and the like.

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Bobboau
technicaly, it's suposed to be somewere arounndt 2 GB, but I think it can be any size in practice.

That's FAT16.

[StratComm]

The maximum size varies directly with the block size that you specify (as does pretty much every other limitation of FAT32), at least so far as I recall.  There's other limitations when Scandisk gets involved though.