Le 2013-09-03 13:03, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:45:42 -0400, Francois Labreque wrote:
>
>> Le 2013-08-31 13:50, Jim Henderson a écrit :
>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:19:45 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I *do* have an issue with is MS deciding that *I* can't get stuff
>>>> done with my own PC because "most" end-users don't need that feature.
>>>
>>> Such as?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>> Format a >16GB USB drive with FAT32.
>
> That's what exfat is for, among other things (larger file sizes, too).
>
> Surprisingly, you also cant' format a > 16 GB USB drive with FAT16,
> either.
>
> That's not MS "deciding" what you can/can't do, that's a limitation of a
> filesystem created in about 1996.  You really want to complain about the
> limitations in a filesystem created ~20 years ago?
>
> Jim
>
FAT32 can go up to 2TB with 512b sectors and 16TB with 4k sectors. 
There are lots of utilities that will allow you to format a disk >16GB 
with FAT32, but Windows insists on allowing only NTFS for anything 
greater than 16GB.

So it is indeed Microsoft adopting a "Father knows best" attitude.

And, yes I want to complain about it, when the only way to recover a 
$150,000 network appliance is by booting a recovery utility off a USB 
device to reinstall the OS on the appliance itself.

Of course, this is one of the things you find out at 2am, when the only 
thing you have lying around is a 512GB external drive and 3 levels of 
management are looking over your shoulder, wondering if you're serious 
when you tell them you need a DOS 6.0 bootable floppy to run the 
BootitNG toolkit to reformat the drive.

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