28 Jul
2003
28 Jul
'03
6:08 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Now is a good time to back up your system. AND MAKE SURE THE BACK UP WORKS!
If you absolutely must start with a FAT system I
think that
you should use a DOS like FAT. This makes things easy to
move from machine to machine. The 12 bit FAT is a little clumsy
so I'd suggest the 16 bit as the easier to deal with.
FAT16 is limited to 4G
But DOS and Win9x limits it to 2147483647 (NTx permits 4G).
The 2G limitation is due to the use of signed long ints in places that
should have an UNSIGNED long int. Because of that, it can have files with
a NEGATIVE size!