Submission + - Microsoft increases the FAT32 limit from 32GB to 4TB (windows.com) 2
AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other platforms at first, although exFAT support is fairly widespread now.
In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB. Of course, that doesn't mean that every device that supports FAT32 will work flawlessly with a 2TB partition size, but at least there is a decent chance that older devices with don't support exFAT will now be usable with memory cards over 32GB.
In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB. Of course, that doesn't mean that every device that supports FAT32 will work flawlessly with a 2TB partition size, but at least there is a decent chance that older devices with don't support exFAT will now be usable with memory cards over 32GB.
Just a UI change (Score:2)
The underlying filesystem has supported larger partitions all along. It's just the Windows UI tools didn't expose this.
Re: (Score:2)
Exactly I have formated larger than 32 Gigabyte devices with FAT from systems like Linux before. It just works. No idea where the actual limit is.