Μέχρι ποιό μέγεθος αρχείου μπορεί ν' αναγνωρίσει ένα FAT32 file system?
The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 Byte (232−1 bytes). Video capture and editing applications and some other software can easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as
HFS+ or
NTFS. Until mid-2006, those who run
dual boot systems or who move external data drives between computers with different operating systems had little choice but to stick with FAT32. Since then, full support for NTFS has become available in Linux and many other operating systems, by installing the
FUSE library (on Linux) together with the
NTFS-3G application. Data exchange is also possible between Windows and Linux by using the Linux-native
ext2 or
ext3 file systems through the use of external drivers for Windows, such as ext2 IFS; however, Windows cannot boot from ext2 or ext3 partitions.