Any reason not to use FAT32?

[erkanasu]

Anyone htink of a reason not to partition with FAT32 instaead of windows nt file system? ill be playing steam games mostly...

 

[Eraserhead]

Anyone htink of a reason not to partition with FAT32 instaead of windows nt file system? ill be playing steam games mostly...

Yes, if you want to have files over 2GB, for just Steam games it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Slakerr]

Yes, if you want to have files over 2GB, for just Steam games it shouldn't be a problem.

It is a 4GB file limit on FAT32

 

[slughead]

There's more than just the 2gb file size limit

A hard crash in XP (which happened to me twice during installation) can cause fat32 files to be corrupted for no reason.

NTFS, however, protects against that sort of thing as much as is possible.

edit: plus I don't think you can run XP from fat32

 

[slughead]

Oh wow I really haven't posted here since 2003.. crazy

 

[skipsandwichdx]

You can run XP from fat32. I don't think you can read/write on the windows partition from OS X if it's NTFS.

 

[bearbo]

is it a 4gb file limit, or 4gb transfer limit... aka, if i slowly create a file that's 4gb, can fat32 take it so long as i dont move it all over the place? or i cannot have a file that's 4gb period?

 

[CANEHDN]

Go NTFS. There is no reason not too. It's a more stable file system, among other things. It's too bad Microsoft won't be releasing WinFS with Vista. That had some promise.

 

[adk]

is it a 4gb file limit, or 4gb transfer limit... aka, if i slowly create a file that's 4gb, can fat32 take it so long as i dont move it all over the place? or i cannot have a file that's 4gb period?

For some odd reason, FAT32 does not allow any files greater than 4GB.