question on formating USB Drive in Kubuntu

[Tez]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>     
>>> "Jonathan Jesse" <jjesse at iserv.net> writes:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Ok I am slowly moving completely over to Linux on my laptop for work
>>>> and need to run a bunch of Virtual Machines so I have an 120 gig USB
>>>> 2.0 drive that is currently formatted in NTFS.  How do delete
>>>> everything that is on it and format it to ext3 or a better filesystem
>>>> for running such a large USB drive on?
>>>>         
>>> Well, pretty easily:
>>>
>>>   sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdXXX  # replace XXX with your device node
>>>       
>> I'd caution against using a journaling file system
>> (ext3/reiserfs/jfs/xfs) on a USB drive as these formats tend to require
>> a bit more I/O bandwidth than their non-journaling cousins
>> (ext3/vfat/etc).  When you're operating on a bandwidth-challenged bus
>> (like USB) the difference between journaling and not-journaling can be
>> quite noticeable.
>>
>> If you REALLY need the journal, then by all means use it...but be aware
>> of the overheads.
>>
>> YYMV,
>>
>> James
>>
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> SO will vfat support up to 120gigs? Or is there a limit?
>
>   
I think vfat (fat32) only supports up to 32GB partitions

Tez