Re: 4GB limit on FAT32

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:07 PM 6/16/2005, you wrote:
>Oliver Vecernik wrote:
>
>> I misunderstood a statement in a forum. There seems to be no really
>> platform independant file system without those limitations. There is no
>> write support for NTFS under Linux and ext2/ext3 write support under
>> Windows is also not supported (at least open source). I also had a look
>> at FreeBSD, but the same situation with UFS2.
>
>There is another option, captive-NTFS.  It uses Microsoft's own native
>NTFS driver (with glue code from ReactOS and WINE) to enable full
>read/write support under linux.  It's completely open source and free,
>presuming that you have windows installed on the partition and have a
>valid license for it.  (And if you don't have windows, why do you care
>about NTFS?)  Failing that, there is an option to download a particular
>service pack from microsoft.com and unpack the ntfs.sys file.
>
>This is off topic for the cygwin list, obviously.


All true.  And this very subject comes up with some regularity as it did 
again just recently.  I will point out, however, that there are open-source
and free ext2/ext3 drivers for at least W2K/XP.  See:

<http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html>

for some options.  Google for more. ;-)



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