[parted-devel] no warning when formatting >32G fat32 partitions

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 07:16 pm, Viktor Vasilev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to create and format a big, 120GB fat32 partition and the operation
> completed successfully. The problem is that I'm unable to mount the
> partition afterwards. I tried creating such a big partition with the
> windows partition editor under XP and it refused (gave me only NTFS as FS
> option). Now that I googled a bit and educated myself about fat32 it is
> clear that there is a 32GB boundry, beyond which fat32 is unusable.
> Shouldn't parted give a warning in such situations?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Vik

Fat32 partitions CAN be larger than 32G. The reason that the other OS doesn't 
is the vole trying to force people to use NTFS which is more restrictive for 
Linux.