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blubart:
you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

Blanchimont:

--- Quote from: undetz on December 05, 2010, 12:04:07 PM ---...Reformatting your external as NTFS would allow for filesizes up to 16GB, if you go for ext3 or ext4 (if your OS allows) the maximum allowed size for a file can go way beyond that.

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Actually, the max filesize is 16TB for ntfs...

undetz:

--- Quote from: Blanchimont on December 05, 2010, 03:27:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: undetz on December 05, 2010, 12:04:07 PM ---...Reformatting your external as NTFS would allow for filesizes up to 16GB, if you go for ext3 or ext4 (if your OS allows) the maximum allowed size for a file can go way beyond that.

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Actually, the max filesize is 16TB for ntfs...

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I either misread or made a typo then, it has been corrected.

Xiong Chiamiov:

--- Quote from: blubart on December 05, 2010, 12:08:55 PM ---you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

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I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

tomoya-kun:

--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on December 05, 2010, 07:42:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: blubart on December 05, 2010, 12:08:55 PM ---you can convert fat32 to ntfs without any data loss too, so it's not even a lot of effort.

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I thought you were lying, but here are the instructions from Microsoft itself.  Huh.

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I seriously did not know that operation could be completed without a format.  A new thing every day, I guess.

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