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Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 01.07.2009, 22:26

> I know FAT16 partitions with 64 kb cluters sizes (4094 MB) and FAT32
> partitions would benefit greatly from 2 - 4 GB+ file size access! Has this
> been done?
I'm not sure, but isn't 64k cluster sizes a NT thing? I don't know offhand of any pure DOS doing such.

> I want to avoid using NTFS in DOS because of the large memory-overhead
> footprint of the drivers required to access it.
Try LTOOLS instead with ext2. I'm not saying it works (I dunno), but it probably does.

> How about ExFAT (FAT64) in DOS
Don't count on this ever being implemented. Even Linux 2.6.30 removed write support for LFNs on FAT due to MS patents. And if something as old as that is patented, you can be sure that exFAT (XP, Vista, 7) is probably also.

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