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Jason Clifford <postmaster@127.0.0.1> writes:

>Freedom of Choice wrote:
[...]
>> assume it wont be long before an updated version of FIPS is available
>> that will support Fat32.....even though ms wont release any specs, look
>> at NTFSDOS...snigger snigger

>It is already out. I say the announcement which was psoted
>on one of the FreeBSD newsgroups pointing to the Linux FAT32
>homepage which now contains fips15b.zip which DOES SUPPORT
>FAT32.

Having just written to Jason to ask him where to find it, I found
it all by myself. 8-)

However, it seems its support for FAT32 is not universal.  Here's
what I found at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
Quoting the author, Gordon Chaffee:

" Fips is a program to non-destructively resize a FAT partition. 
I have done an update to fips to support FAT32. However, it still 
does not support partitions marked with type 0xC, 0xE, or 0xF. 
All of these partition type use Logical Block Addressing (LBA). 
LBA allows the BIOS to address disks over 8GB. A partition type 
of 0xC is a FAT32 partition that uses Logical Block Addressing (LBA). 
A partition type of 0xE is a FAT16 partition that uses LBA. A partition 
type of 0xF is a FAT16 partition that uses LBA but is less than 32MB. "

Cheers,  Ian S.

P.S. fips15b.zip is available as a link on the above page. 
It's about 178K.


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