Re: Directory does not fit in FAT16 (capacity 516.06 MB)

[Thomas Huth]

On 13/12/2023 13.51, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 01:27:49PM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> > A FAT16 partition (0x06) can be as large as 2 GiB
>
> That's why I say that there's probably a limitation in the QEMU vvfat
> driver.

Yes, it's hard-coded somewhere here:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/v8.1.0/block/vvfat.c#L1195

Anyway, it's not recommended to use vvfat anymore since it's very old and 
unmaintained code. If possible, use something like usb-mtp or virtio-fs instead.

 Thomas