[ale] Gotta bea FAQ: Give ordinary users R/W/X access to VFAT partition

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

ALErs -

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> Windows XP refuses to create an FAT32 partition (vfat) that is > 30 GiB.  
> That's pretty pathetic -- I can use FreeDOS on my 250 GiB SATA drive with 
> one FAT32 partition, and Windows XP will then *use* it, but it won't create 
> partitions like that.

How about partitioning with Linux fdisk, then creating the fs with:
 "mkfs -t vfat ..."  ?

Disclaimer: I never actually tried to create or interoperate over large
VFAT partitions. YMM most definitely V.

 - Mills