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dmitrygr on Oct 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash ...

File size is still limited to 0xffffffff (the dir entry only has 32 bits to store it). Some broken implementations even treat it as signed, and files over 2GB become problematic

ComputerGuru on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

Ah sorry, you're right. That allows FAT32 to be used for larger partition sizes, but the file size limit remains in place.

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