Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

David A. Ferguson wrote:

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From: "Marc Lijour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

 

Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a �crit :
   

I dual boot between Linux and W2k.  I store the shared data on a FAT.
Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted.
Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something?

It is so bad that it is basically useless.  I don't do anything special
just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit.
Thanks...David
     

I use the same config.
My entry:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0
You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32?
   

I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12.  I formated it with
a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions.  It is only
1GB in size.
Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get
better
results?
David

 

If you want it to support long file names, you have to use vfat.

Mikkel

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