On 2010/01/13 15:36 (GMT+0100) Christian Masloch composed: >>>> PS: for what I know vfat in Linux is just the name of FAT32 ;)
>>> Then Linux is not correct, because VFAT is just an extension to FAT12 / >>> FAT16 / FAT32 to allow long filenames: >> Ok, but most people should be aware that in the Linux literature (most >> google tutorials) the tem vfat is used liberaly. > I've only ever heard it used to mean *all* file systems using the VFAT > extension, i.e. FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems with long names. They > probably call this the VFAT file system to distinguish it from their > original FAT file system implementation which didn't support long names > and the new file times. In Linux, FAT12, FAT16 & FAT16B can be mounted MSDOS instead of VFAT to restrict active usage to 8.3 filenames. MSDOS is how I always mount these partitions on Linux systems with no Windows co-installed. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
