Thread: Best cure for 4GB filesize limit of FAT32?
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2009-02-23 , 01:05
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Originally Posted by CyberCat View Post
Thanks for the replies, the instructions GeneralAntilles linked appear to be for setting up partitions also they appear to use ext2 instead. Is partitioning necessary for formatting to ext3? I really want to keep the whole thing to a single partition as it is if that's possible... also the instructions seem overly multifaceted for something this trivial, isn't there something like "format /dev/mmcblk1 -fs ext3"? Also if I use ext2/3 will I still be able to connect the N810 using the USB cable with WinXP?
You can create one big partition, but then you couldn't transfer stuff to a Windows computer. I would create a large ext[2/3] partition and a small fat partition, and use the fat partition as an intermediary to the ext partition and Windows computers.

To find software to do this on the tablet, search is your friend, or if you have a Linux computer, install gparted.