From bradleyb@u.washington.edu Mon Jan 29 15:06:41 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id PAA91932 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:06:39 -0800 Received: from shelob.classrooms.washington.edu (mail@shelob.classrooms.washington.edu [128.95.90.33]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA25407 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:06:38 -0800 Received: from bradleyb by shelob.classrooms.washington.edu with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14NNQL-0007H7-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:09:25 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:09:25 -0800 From: Bradley Bell To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: mkdosfs and FAT32 Message-ID: <20010129150925.B27858@washington.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mike@boobaz.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0800 Sender: Bradley Bell It seems to imply that it's limited by the available memory. did you try adding more swap space? the mkswap man page tells how to set up a temporary swap file (using dd). -brad On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0800, Mike wrote: > I've got a partition I want to format as FAT32 but it doesn't want to > work. Is there a size limit? If anyone can help, that would be awesome. > > # fdisk -l /dev/hdb > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2498 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 1276 2423 9221310 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb2 > mkdosfs 2.2 (06 Jul 1999) > mkdosfs: unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory > > --------------------------- > -=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=- > .