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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>>>>> No problem.  I put this patch together quite a while ago for
>>>>> my own use and never got around to sending it in.  It removes
>>>>> a number of artificial fat32 limits, and allows files up to 4GB,
>>>>
>>>> Why only 4gb?
>>>
>>> That's what the 32 in fat32 means.
>>
>> No, it doesn't.  It's about the number of bits in a cluster number, thus
>> the size of the filesystem.  And that 32 is actually 28.
>
> OK, my mistake, but there is a 32 as in file size, right?

Yes, the size has always been a 32 bit field, even with fat12.

Andreas.

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