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Bob Williams wrote:
> I recently bought a Kingston 4GB USB 2 Thumb Drive.
> I use it mainly to store Edited Pictures.
> I do not NEED to format it but I CAN, with Win Xp.
> Is there any advantage in formatting it in FAT 32 vs FAT 16? or vice
> versa? Somewhat OT, but guys in this NG know everything.
> Bob Williams

OK Guys, I got my answer and some education too.....as expected.
Thanks for the responses.
Bob Williams

John Navas wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2008 18:46:28 GMT, ray <> wrote in
> <>:
>
>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:40:42 +0000, John Navas wrote:
>>
>>> On 6 Feb 2008 16:33:55 GMT, ray <> wrote in
>>> <>:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:31:07 -0800, Bob Williams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I recently bought a Kingston 4GB USB 2 Thumb Drive. I use it mainly to
>>>>> store Edited Pictures. I do not NEED to format it but I CAN, with Win
>>>>> Xp. Is there any advantage in formatting it in FAT 32 vs FAT 16? or
>>>>> vice versa? Somewhat OT, but guys in this NG know everything. Bob
>>>>> Williams
>>>> Yes. The normal implementations of FAT16 are limited to 2gb.
>>> 2 GB can be exceeded with a larger sector size, as in certain M-O
>>> drives.
>> Fine - what part of "normal implementations" did you not understand?
>
> What makes you think those aren't "normal implementations"?
>
The part where you failed to explain how to achieve such.
Dave Cohen

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:13:33 GMT, Dave Cohen <> wrote in
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>John Navas wrote:
>> On 6 Feb 2008 18:46:28 GMT, ray <> wrote in
>> <>:
>>
>>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:40:42 +0000, John Navas wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6 Feb 2008 16:33:55 GMT, ray <> wrote in
>>>> <>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:31:07 -0800, Bob Williams wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently bought a Kingston 4GB USB 2 Thumb Drive. I use it mainly to
>>>>>> store Edited Pictures. I do not NEED to format it but I CAN, with Win
>>>>>> Xp. Is there any advantage in formatting it in FAT 32 vs FAT 16? or
>>>>>> vice versa? Somewhat OT, but guys in this NG know everything. Bob
>>>>>> Williams
>>>>> Yes. The normal implementations of FAT16 are limited to 2gb.
>>>> 2 GB can be exceeded with a larger sector size, as in certain M-O
>>>> drives.
>>> Fine - what part of "normal implementations" did you not understand?
>>
>> What makes you think those aren't "normal implementations"?
>>
>The part where you failed to explain how to achieve such.

Any UNIX workalike should be able to format sizes other than 512 bytes,
including "Live" CD versions.

Microsoft FAT specification: "Count of bytes per sector. This value may
take on only the following values: 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096. ...
Microsoft operating systems will properly support 1024, 2048, and 4096.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)