quick question about FAT32

[kysg]

I'm just wondering how big can a partition be for FAT32????

I always thought it tapered off at 40gb but I look at my mybook and it's 320gb FAT32 partition.
kept wondering why it wouldn't allow me to hold more than a 4gb file on the drive itself. Anyways just wondered about that.

Also which is better if you dualboot on same drive?? 1 partition as FAT32??? or 1 partition as NTFS I might dual boot for Suse in the future either that or just place it on a seperate drive.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I always choose EXT3 for Linux and NTFS for windows ALWAY. FAT32 is my backup folder.

 

[3870x2]

max size wasnt the problem, which is 2048GB, the problem was the 4G limit on filesize, and other things NTFS excelled at.
EDIT: with a certain cluster specification, i think it can be up to 8192GB.

 

[kysg]

Ah I see now I get it. FAT32 has a way higher limit but can't handle 4 gb file okay yea that makes sense. kept wondering why I couldn't get those 4gb isos on my backup drive.