Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42B1BFE8.FC6F9578@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:07:36 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 4GB limit on FAT32 References: <42B1A4B1.1080706@vecernik.at> <42B1A710.A41B00AE@dessent.net> <42B1BCCD.3030102@vecernik.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/