Re: [Thinkpad] T43

Doesn't FAT32 have a file size limit of 2 gig?
I know I did backups to a USB 2 drive, and unless I limit the size of the
files (total maybe 7 gig or so) the backups won't work or even load.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43

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> > Time to join the modern world, Jeffery. The T-43 is just too perfect
> a tool
> > for you to not use it in its best format.
>
> Without getting into an OT war on this, there are certainly some valid
> reasons to prefer Fat32 on a partition instead of NTFS. I had a series
> of system crashes with NTFS systems a couple of years ago (on 2
> different machines), and system attempts to automatically repair the
> directory structure munged everything so badly that none of my recovery
> utilities could do anything. I now keep the main Windows partition
> small and FAT32, and the remainder of the system NTFS - this gives me
> the security and random-access-speed advantages of NTFS, and the
> simplicity of FAT32 for basic system stuff (as well as a platform for
> multi-booting into DOS to run some very old software I need that will
> not run in a DOS window). FAT32 is also a tad more efficient for very
> large contiguous files.
>
> Most aftermarket drive management software will let you do a live
> NTFS->FAT32 conversion. I used Paragon for mine.
>
> DR
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