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From: Ken Blake, MVP on 16 Sep 2009 11:21
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:34:09 -0700, Sachin
<Sachin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for your comments.


You're welcome. Glad to help.


> Just one question still troubles me; if this has been experienced by lot of
> people, why it has not been taken care of?
> How does MS work on such things?


Sorry, I can't answer either of those questions. I know nothing about
how Microsoft works on such things nor how they decide what to work
on.



> This(and one above in Mark's blog) seems quite straightforward problem to me.
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:38:01 -0700, Sachin
> > <Sachin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a huge file(of size ~6GB). It is residing on my PC's NTFS drive,
> > > My system is Windows XP SP2.
> > >
> > > When I try to copy the file to a USB disk, which is formatted as FAT32 -
> > > then it gives me error as "There is no enough disk space available"
> > > (The wording might not be correct, but it said this thing).
> > >
> > > While in fact, the problem is with the underlying file system.
> >
> >
> > Actually, no, there isn't really any problem at all. FAT32 has a
> > maximum size of 4GB and you tried to exceed that maximum.
> >
> >
> > > One of my friend who is not expert, could not get the real root cause, and
> > > unnecessarily deleted all the files on the drive thinking that it is really
> > > 'out of space'.
> >
> >
> > Ouch!
> >
> >
> > > It would be great if Windows can flash the correct error;
> >
> >
> > You are absolutely right. The error message is terribly misleading,
> > and you are not the first person to be confused by it.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >

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From: Anteaus on 24 Sep 2009 03:33

"David B." wrote:

> It has been taken care of, with the NTFS file system, which every NT based
> Windows OS supports. exFat also doesn't have the 4GB limitation.
>

Unfortunately this isn't an option for memory used with cameras, MP3
players, etc which typically do not understand NTFS.

exFat is likewise a good idea in theory but lacks widespread support.

A better solution, IMHO, would be the adoption of an opensource format such
as ext3, XFS or Reiser as a standard for removeable devices. Ext3 would be
attractive since low-powered devices could treat it as ext2 without the
journalling for the sake of simpler drivers.

However, I can forsee hell freezing over before Microsoft conceded to such
an idea ;-)

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